He clearly stated a few times; preheat, turn oven OFF BEFORE you put the lid inside the oven, monitor - monitor - monitor. Thanks for the tip! I'm saving it as a golden nugget. You're a good father for expecting your daughter to do this after you've shown her.🙂🙂
YAY!! I've been contemplating getting rid of two special Halloween dinner trays I bought years ago for my oldest granddaughters. But the warp in the center of both is such a hinderance. I was about to donate today when my oldest granddaughter expressed sorrow about it lol! I found your video, and now, thanks to you, these are flat in the center and can be used for my two youngest grandsons! Thank you!!
In-genius idea and execution. I have the problem with the drawers sagging on the bottom from too much weight being put in the drawer and the drawer being hard to slide back and forth. I am going to give your idea a whirl and see if it works. Lucky for me the type of resin in my drawers is the same number 5 so I can use 300F too. It works like a champ and restored the drawer perfectly. My model is the Sterilite wide drawer and the bottom is much thinner plastic so I only used my broiler pan with a 48 oz bottle to weight it down. Both the heating with the oven turned off and the cooling process took about 6 minutes each. Weight it down on whatever side is warped to force the warp down. Mostly the heating restored the shape but a person wants to weight it down to reinforce the memory as it is cooling down again to room temperature. If a person is doing several I would suggest turning down the oven to 280 degrees (plastic numbered 5) for subsequent trials. Always remember to turn off the oven when the preheating is finished.
Ok this has nothing to do with a plastic drawer top but I had a plastic based desk lamp the kind with the bendy swivel metal neck. The lamp got left outside in the summer heat a year ago and warped onto itself so the lamp wouldn't stand upright it was going to get tossed. But after watching this video and figuring I could use my blow dryer on high in specific spots to reshape it with pliers and push on it covering my hands it would go back into shape, it did! So thank you for posting this video.
I searched for help to fix a 3 drawer plastic storage just like your 1 drawer and when i saw yours i almost yelled out.im so grateful this is the first video that. RU-vid suggested for my search....thats awesome !!! Thank you. !!!
Wow. Thankyou, you just saved me three dollars. Followed your instructions, 7 minutes in the oven preheated to 300F. Didn't even have to weigh down the lid. Both the lid and container magically returned to their original form. Amazing.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I just purchased a drawer unit at the thrift store and the top is warped really bad. I'll have to give this a try.
Thank You for your cool plastic rebound re-shape tips! Always thought I'd turn my warped plastic stuff into #Gumby Goo with my Microwave. I luv how you _"hinted"_ at frames 4:38 that you ain't doin' this for Daughter. She has to.
Thank god your video was great and straight to the point simple but I know there are some idiots that didn’t listen and your video saved me now to keep my son from leaning on it
Thank you SO MUCH for this hack and posting it! You saved me SO MUCH frustration with my rolling cart! I stayed next to the oven after preheating it. I put the plastic leg of my 3-tier cart (the shelf with the handle attached has a warped section on just one of the legs' connection areas and it's so large that I can't fit it into my oven so I decided to remold one side of the detachable legs that go between the shelf racks) onto the top rack away from the bottom heating elements. It only took 3 minutes before I started smelling the plastic, so I reached in and felt the plastic with my microfiber cloth and it DID give way so I took it out and put it back onto the top shelf's warped leg piece and then reassembled it back with the rest of the cart to make sure that it would mold properly and the bottom side of the leg didn't get messed up while I was remolding the top! 😩💨 I was a bundle of nerves for about 5 minutes and then totally excited afterwards! 😁👍 So thanks a bunch!!! 💕💕💕
thank you for this advice. I am going to try it with a silly plastic set of drawers my daughter gave me. I hope to make the top drawer go in smoothly and the top not sagging. Then I can store all of the grand girls dress up clothes!! Thank you
I had a lid that was larger than my oven so I was able to take out the racks and put a rack sideways and it fit that way. This worked perfectly to fix the warped lid. Thank you so much!!!
Obviously they can't tell you to put it in the oven, because you'd be the first one to sue them if the thing goes on fire or you get burned. It's just common sense.
Excellent! Thank you so much for this concise video. I have a gas oven did preheat to 300* and turned oven off. Only left the large Sterilite 3 drawer bowed top to be reshaped to Flat!! Thank you again
This doesn't work for pyrex lids! I followed the directions exactly (starting to wonder why I was smelling plastic after about three minutes in the oven). I now have globs of blue and red on the floor of my oven. But I should have realized this wouldn't work for these lids because the packaging instructions say to NOT put lids in dishwasher unless on top shelf. Duh ... 😖
The various types of plastic have different melting points. You need to adjust the temperature accordingly. The oven should be hot but turned off and you need to closely monitor the process.
Excellent! I have some plastic multi drawer units for craft supplies- some of the drawers always fall off the sliders. I was thinking it was the frame but it is actually the drawers bowing inward slightly. I was wondering if I could somehow reinforce the sliders- I’ll have to check and see if I could fix the drawers this way… and not put such heavy items inside! Lol
I had some large 3 drawer containers like this and since I couldn't figure out how to get the lids off without breaking the plastic I used a hair dryer and then heavy weighted stuff and let it sit for awhile. Seemed to work well. I wish these types of containers had stronger tops.
Very cool solution indeed! I ordered some acrylic sheet for laser-cutting, it arrived pretty warped, but now i know what to do thanks (using the relevant temps for acrylic of course!) :)
When I tried this, mine melted! I didn't want to melt it so I put my oven on 250! Apparently that was to hot! When you do this please make sure that it's not too hot, or don't leave it in for more than 5 mins!!! 😭 Now I have to make a new to for mine!!
Mine melted after 4 mins at 300°! Melted right to the rack.😫 It was bigger than his too and still melted very quickly. Was trying to salvage the drawer bin instead of buying a small dresser. Guess we're gonna go ahead and by the dresser now since the bin top is toast.😢
@@triciakleidon4170 .. cut a piece of plywood just a tad bigger than the ruined top and place on top, of the drawer, first paint or stain it the color you like.
You can paint a piece of sturdy plywood white, then cut to fit the top just a tiny bit bigger. That will protect it from warping again and give ya'll a sturdy shelf to set stuff on. I did that with mine and it works perfectly. Came here because i have three beautiful cheap serving trays that have the warp in the center making them virtually useless. Will try this method with them. Just one question, what if a piece doesnt have the 5 on the bottom?
Have you ever found a solution for this? I was wondering the same thing. There should be a way to reinforce them somehow. Maybe by gluing cardboard or foam board underneath the lid?
You would have to preheat the board to prevent the board cooling the plastic. Just follow the directions and turn the oven off before you put the plastic in.
I had two tops to try with this. They are decades old. Mine did not even have a recycle symbol to identify the plastic! I tried the 300 degrees (utter failure) so I let the oven cool down more and tried 270 (oven off, for both). Ruined it, too. If I were to do it again, I'd take more time, starting at the lowest temp my oven had and work up. However, I suspect it was the type of plastic, not the technique. It's a very brittle type of plastic, not the more flexible kind used now. It was like a light switch on the checks... okay, not soft; okay, not soft; already ruined on the next check. Neither was in over 5 min. total. It smelled like the vac-u-forms we played with in the 1960's. Fast forward to what to do? The bases and vertical uprights that support the drawers were still fine. My solution? FOAM CORE BOARD! I traced a base - slightly larger to allow for a little extra on each side - and then marked where the vertical supports come through onto foam core board. I very carefully cut this out with a utility knife. So far, so good, on both the 3 drawer and 2 drawer sets. I store crafting items, and can place one drawer set per shelf on a bookcase shelf, so nothing stacks on top of it. I was basically trying to find a way to keep the uprights where they belonged so I could still use the drawers. 🤞
I used those candle lighter deal when I was trying to get my drip system set up and the drippers refused to go in the punch on the rigid pipe...worked well and being warmed up sealed the opening to the dripper NO leaks.
I got this plexiglass for a picture frame that I forgot about and left it next to the heating thing. It deformed a lot, mostly elastic deformation but it has some plastic deformation too. Im not trying to restore it to its original state 100%, but would putting it in the oven help?
You are awesome! Thank you! I think you're the type of wonderful man who lives by the mantra: Happy Wife, Happy Life...she makes you cookies while you fix her warped plastics... Relationship goals!!! Hahaha...very cool video...meow! 😆
Nice tip, thanks. 👍 Do you think putting some mass (bricks, steel lifting weights) will make the oven hold heat well enough to soften multiple pieces that won't all fit inside at the same time?
Great tip! I am surprised the #5 PP does not melt where it is touching the oven racks. Did you place it directly on the rack, or on the oven floor, or maybe on a silicone piece of ovenware or silicone mitt? Wish I could have seen this in the oven.
@@mars1952 I just did this and the plastic started melting to the metal rack within 60 seconds. It was the #5 plastic and I turned off the oven after it got to 300F. I can't figure out why it worked for everyone else but not me. Seems like I followed all the instructions.
@stacymknutson maybe try putting a wooden board on the rack and then put the plastic on top of the wooden board to avoid the plastic melting from the metal rack
I tried this yesterday. FAILED. I used 325. Less than 10 min. My top completely melted through both over racks. Thankfully I had foil liners an the floor of the oven. I neglected to have the oven OFF. Operator error! Details!
