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With over 35 years of experience, Label Magnets is your source for top quality, high-end warehouse and store adhesive magnets. You can choose from stock sizes, or take advantage or our convenient and inexpensive custom cutting options to get the exact product you need.
Did you scroll all this way to get facts about adhesive magnets? Well you're in luck, because here they come. There are 2670 adhesive magnets for sale on Etsy, and they cost $7.74 on average. The most common adhesive magnets material is plastic. The most popular color? You guessed it: silver. To use: remove the release liner and place your business card on the exposed adhesive. These magnet sheets are designed with a sturdy adhesive to ensure your business card is permanently attached to the magnet. Loose-cut business card magnets can have a 1/16th' tolerance in either dimension. This variance is an industry-standard.
Write directly onto the white vinyl surface with either permanent or wet erase markers. These labels can be easily cut to any length with scissors, utility knives or shears. White Magnet Labels are perfect for labeling products and identifying product locations, to allow for easy inventory relocation and labeling throughout your warehouse.
Only slightly more expensive than White Magnet Labels – Strips are conveniently pre-scored to standard label lengths and ready to use without additional cutting or shaping and allow you to write and rewrite directly onto a white vinyl surface with wet erase markers. White Magnet Strips allow for easy stock movement throughout your warehouse for easy re-organization throughout the years!
Plain flexible magnets are designed to be used with computer or hand-written sticky labels. At .060″ thick our plain magnets are durable to handle labeling projects in the most active and demanding warehouse.
Pre-scored to standard label length and ready to use with pre-printed sticker labels. Simply snap off each piece to begin your labeling project. These labels can easily be re-labeled with additional stickers and moved throughout your store or warehouse as inventory moves or changes.
Allow for ease and convenience when organizing warehouses or stores. Made from rugged 8 millimeter vinyl with two magnetic strips, the envelopes allow you to display critical information or product details on metal shelves, racks, equipment, or doors. Easily replace paper labels with new product information as needed.
A full magnet backing ensures extra strength, while the C-Channel allows data cards to be slid into the magnet and display information securely. Since the data cards come in a wide variety of different colors (including white) you can color code scheduling boards and identify files in the office, library or warehouse.
Let Label Magnets help you with your custom printed magnets for the warehouse, stockroom or office. We can supply durable labels already applied to magnets or create a unique magnetic label or sign with our full digital printing capabilities.
For applications that are unique in size or strength we can create a magnet that will work for your labeling needs. Many times it is simply cutting our rolls to different lengths, other times it’s making vinyl envelopes stronger by applying more magnets. We can handle any quantity and do our best to keep our minimums low, our prices competitive and lead times within your time frame.
Works great on metal white boards, organizational charts, production scheduling boards, to designate jobs, equipment rentals, locations, seasonal products. Use DRY erase markers and change information as frequently as needed. Cut to length with scissors or utility knife.
For a semi-permanent writing surface use our WET erasable colored flexible magnets. Color code warehouse shelves, seasonal products, dated products, or create a special designation on how product should flow between departments. Cut to length with scissors or utility knife.
Magnetic on one side, permanent industrial strength adhesive on the other. If you need to hang laminated signs or useful information on metal racks or doors, Magnetic Tape allows you to easily hang items while being able to move signage as needed. Also perfect for lining tool trays to hold small metal parts.
This pre-cut roll is magnetic on one side, with permanent industrial strength adhesive on the other. Cut Through the Magnet (CTM) allows for easy tear away and peel from a continuous intact liner.
Made from a heavy, 10-gauge PVC, these labels allow you to easily display messages on wire baskets, racks, or closed handles while permitting barcode scanning. They hang easily wherever you put them, without scratching, denting, or requiring a flat surface!
The perfect, extremely strong magnet, for use in workshops, warehouses, and offices. The mounting hole allows use in hanging lights, signs and tools from magnetic beams, equipment, cabinets, and metal doors.
Quickly and easily create your own indoor signage using any desktop ink-jet printer and/or laser printer.
Increase sales and keep business cards visible by converting paper business cards into a magnet. Take a standard business card 2″x3.5″ and magnet. Peel away the adhesive liner, match up the edges and press together.
Perfect for custom car signs, masking, displays, advertising, warehouse labels and more. Can be used with screen printers, ink-jet printers, digital printing, offset, and flexographic.
For applications that require extra strength, High Energy Flexible Magnets provide up to 60% more holding power! Perfect for light duty holding applications, can be easily machined and is inexpensive.
Not all labels are compatible with the choices offered. We have converting machines available and waiting to create a unique size magnet for your warehouse or stock room. We can handle any quantity and do our best to keep our minimums low, our prices competitive and lead times within your time frame.
Magnetic Cabinet Closures
What magnets can be used to hold a cabinet door closed?
Magnetic closures are commonly used to hold doors and drawers closed on everything from furniture to cabinets. Usually, these closures are products made with magnets and other parts (steel, plastic, etc.) that make a magnetic closure. We don’t sell any products or assemblies like this, but that doesn’t stop folks from using powerful neodymium magnets for this purpose.
This month, we’ll take a look at a few solutions that work well.
Simple Idea #1: Use Adhesive Backed Magnets
While the adhesive is strong, it may not stick well to certain surfaces.
In our Adhesive Backed Magnets section, we offer a few disc magnets that come with pre-applied adhesive backing. Let’s try a few of these to hold some typical kitchen cabinets and drawers closed.
We start with the ½” diameter D81AD-P disc magnets. They come in matched pairs, each with adhesive backing on one side of the magnet. The pairs have the adhesive on the north pole on one magnet and on the south pole on the other. Use these matched pairs so that the magnets will attract to one another, not repel.
Make sure each surface is clean. Clean with alcohol or some other cleaner that will remove grease or fingerprints. This will help ensure a good adhesive bond.
We peeled off the adhesive from one magnet, and stuck it in place on the inside corner of the cabinet door. Press it in place and hold for about 10-15 seconds to get a good bond.
Next, we had to find a way to install the second magnet to the frame of the cabinet so that it was properly aligned with the magnet on the door. To do this, we simply stuck that second magnet on top of the first, right on the door. Peel the adhesive away, and close the door. Press and hold the door shut for 10-15 seconds to get a good adhesive bond.
This simple solution provides a nice, sturdy hold.
Note: Neodymium magnets are made of a hard, brittle material. It’s possible that repeated slamming could eventually chip, crack or damage a magnet. We started this exercise fully prepared to recommend a layer of protective tape over one or both of the magnets. Our initial testing, however, worked out pretty well. Despite repeated testing and slamming, the magnets seem to hold up pretty well. We suppose it’s because the magnets are supported well, and the stresses are all compressing the magnet (its strongest direction).
Safety note: If there's any chance that young ones will be able to stick loose magnets in their mouths, avoid any setup where magnets might come loose. As mentioned in our Safety page, swallowing multiple magnets can pose a serious health risk.
Different Sizes
The ½” D81AD-P magnets were a little strong. Our test cabinets don’t have handles, so it’s hard to get a good grip on them. These magnets probably work well for cabinets with handles, but we found the weaker strength of the 3/8” diameter D61AD-P felt a little better.
Still, we did find that there was a little “bounce” to the closing of the door. We also tried two pairs of small, ¼” diameter D41AD-P magnets. We placed these pairs at the top and bottom of the doors, with a really nice result.
While the 3M adhesive backing on these magnets works surprisingly well, it's not perfect. With repeated use, it's possible for the glue bond to break. Our test subjects have held up well, but one broke free once. I suspect we didn't clean the surface well enough, but it's possible you'll see the same thing.
Inset Magnets for a Flush Surface
We’ve seen some really beautiful magnetic closures on fine woodwork. Our customers have incorporated magnets into cabinets, doors and even tiny jewelry boxes. Small disc or cylinder magnets are set into drilled holes. The magnet's surface can be flush with the surface, or even hidden below.
This small wood box uses four D24 magnets pressed into 1/8” diameter drilled holes. With a nice, flush surface, it’s a great alternative to a mechanical latch. It closes with a firm snap!
To stick with our kitchen cabinet theme, we mimicked this with larger D44 magnets set into ¼” diameter holes in a kitchen cabinet.
What we haven’t shown is an example where magnets are set very slightly below the surface, and then covered over to hide them. Hidden magnets can make a slick magnetic closure!
Drawers too!
The same ideas can be used with drawers as well.
Mounting Magnets provide a stronger, sturdier hold.
In all the examples above, we’ve used a magnet-to-magnet setup. While that's a great way to get a strong hold, many magnetic closures use a single magnet that attracts to a steel part or strike plate.
Strong Mounting Magnets are powerful and sturdy. We wanted a way to mount a small, 5/8” diameter MMS-A-A Mounting Magnet on the cabinet so that it would attract to a steel washer attached to the door.
We couldn’t simply screw the thicker magnet to the frame like we did with the adhesive-backed magnets. Its thicker overall size would prevent the cabinet from closing all the way. We needed some kind of structure to attach the magnet to in the right location.
For this example, we 3D printed a small bracket to hold an MMS-A-A magnet. (Download the model here!) We secured the magnet to the bracket with a #4-40 flat-head machine screw and nut. We secured the magnet-bracket assembly to the cabinet with two #4 wood screws.
Then, we attached an NSW82 steel washer (not a magnet) to the backside of the door.
This combination is the strongest of our examples here. It’s much stronger than the other setups. It’s really too strong for our cabinet doors that don't have handles. It required over 5 lb of force to open, which is more like opening a refrigerator door than a cabinet.
One benefit of this setup is that the Mounting Magnet’s design has steel impacting steel when closing, protecting the brittle magnet material. It’s more durable.
This setup is also more tolerant of mis-alignment. Unlike a magnet-to-magnet setup, a magnet sticking to a steel part will happily stick just as well if slightly offset. You could even use a larger steel “strike plate” to make a bigger target.
If you prefer, you could get the same result with the positions reversed. You could attach the MMS-A-A magnet to the door, and have a steel bracket or strike plate on the cabinet which it attracts to.
Other solutions
These are some common ways magnets are used, but don’t let these ideas constrain you. There are lots of other interesting ways you might find to use magnetic attraction to your advantage.
As an example, consider this: A ring magnet will stick to steel parts on its side. It’s not as strong as you get from the flat surface, but it does stick. With this in mind, we attached a ¾” diameter RC22CS-N ring magnet to the inside face of the cabinet opening.
This attracts to a steel plate (NSW82) on the door with a little force. We found this a little weaker, only providing a modest 1.2 lb of pull force. To get a bit more force, we found that stacking two RC22CS-N ring magnets worked quite well.
Countersunk Rings
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This video we made back in 2009 shows how a pair of countersunk ring magnets can be used to make a simple closure. It's a good way to see how the polarity or magnetization direction of the two magnets is important.
Summary of magnets used in these examples
Adhesive Magnets For Kitchen Cabinets
Adhesive Backed Magnets:
Self Adhesive Magnetic Strips
- D41AD-P: Small, ¼” diameter
- D61AD-P: Medium, 3/8” diameter
- D81AD-P: ½” diameter
Magnets to inset into holes:
- 1/8” diameter D22 or D24 cylinder magnets (used for small wood box, not cabinets)
- ¼” diameter D44 cylinder magnets
Mounting Magnet: MMS-A-A (larger sizes available in our MMS-A section)
Countersunk steel washers can be found in our Steel Cups and Washers section.
Countersunk Ring Magnets like the RC22CS-P or R822CS-P are found in our Countersunk Magnets section.
Can I fix an existing magnetic closure?
What if I want to re-magnetize an existing magnetic closure that has become weak? Stay tuned. Next month, we’ll take a weak magnet in a kitchen cabinet and try to find multiple ways to improve matters with neodymium magnets.
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