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  • Magnetic Stirrer Resurfacing & Mug Decoration

    Half a year of plunking my morning cocoa mug on the magnetic stirrer had pretty well scuffed up its platform, so this seemed like a good idea:

    Magnetic stirrer - vinyl surface
    Magnetic stirrer – vinyl surface

    Rather than add the blue disk to the small-scraps collection, I converted the Squidwrench logo into a LightBurn layout:

    Squidwrench logo - laser cut layout
    Squidwrench logo – laser cut layout

    The roll of transfer tape I have on hand doesn’t stick well to the polyurethane sheet, so easing the vinyl onto the mug required careful tweezer work:

    Squidwrench logo on mug
    Squidwrench logo on mug

    It’s on the other side of the mug from the original, somewhat battered, logo.

    Now we can learn how long polyurethane sheets survive under the same conditions.