Instamorph Magnetic Doorstop

Our mudroom door has an annoying tendency to close part way, so I wanted to hold it open, and yet we go behind that door all the time for aprons and mops and stuff so it needed to be easy to open (I didn’t want a rock or whatever that I’d have to kick out of the way and reposition all the time). The off-the-shelf magnetic doorstops I’ve tried have sucked, because they are too strong, make a loud noise when they engage, etc. So I whipped up something with the existing doorstop, some Instamorph, and a couple rare earth magnets I had on hand. It’s not pretty, but it’s the mudroom and behind a door we keep open, so that’s okay.

The hacked doorstop (I removed the existing rubber head, and buried one of the magnets in the new Instamorph head) and door plate with magnet (underside view):

The door plate installed:

Engaged!

I had to heat up the surfaces a couple time to remove extra Instamorph and then reflatten them because they were initially too thick for the magnets to attract enough through. I just set the stove burner (glass cooktop) on low, put down some foil, then some wax paper over that so the Instamorph wouldn’t stick, and pressed the piece down on it to melt it.