When not hot, he can flip it over and use the stir plate. This consists of a hard drive magnet attached to a PC fan. For the stirrer itself he encased a neodymium magnet in some thermoplastic.

Some stirrers have hot plates integrated and depending on the plastic you use, this might be a good upgrade. Posted in hardware , Tool Hacks Tagged lab equipment , magnetic stirrer Post navigation ...

Anyone who has ever worked in a laboratory has seen them: magnetic stirrers that rotate magnetic stir bars in liquids to mix them. The stir bars come in many different forms - now including ...