Every question, answered.

Hard, flat ground is exactly what it's built for — wood, painted steel, and bare cast iron all give the wide base and the fins the same grip a soft surface would. Bump it and it settles back level instead of sliding toward the edge.

No magnet, no clamp, no metal touching the paint — it's one piece of flexible material sitting on top, so there's nothing to scuff the finish the way a magnet's edge or a screw-on bracket can.

It sits on top the same as anywhere else and doesn't add moisture of its own. Keeping a sweating can inside it instead of loose on the iron is exactly the point — the base holds the drink steady and resists tipping, so a bump is a lot less likely to send a full can rolling across the wax.

Measure the bottom, not the top. A base of 2 to 3 inches across fits — the 40 oz Stanley does. A handled coffee mug doesn't; the handle gets in the way of the fins.

No — it holds the cup steady, it doesn't cover it. If dust in the drink is the bigger worry, pair it with a lidded bottle or tumbler; even then, shop regulars will tell you a sip lid picks up its own film of dust over a long session.

No. Nothing clamps to an edge, mounts in a dog hole, or bolts through the top. It sits on whatever surface is open that day and moves with the project.

Vibration is just what a running shop sounds like, and it's exactly what this is built to shrug off. The base flexes with the surface and settles the drink back level as the top shakes. It resists tipping — though a direct hit from a swung board is still a direct hit.

Anywhere flat — the bench top, the tool-chest lid, a sheet of plywood across sawhorses, even the concrete floor in a pinch. It has no fixed mount, so it goes wherever the work is that day.

Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart and nowhere for sawdust to hide.

It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.

A magnetic holder only grips vertical ferrous steel, so it works on a toolbox side and nowhere else in the shop — not the bench top, not MDF, not an aluminum cart. This holds by a wide base plus fins gripping the container's bottom inch, so the same one works on wood, painted steel, and bare cast iron without needing steel to stick to. It also is not locked to one fixed opening the way a magnetic holder is — those run a fixed diameter around 3.3 inches that is too wide for some bottles and too loose for others, where this settles anything with a base from 2 to 3 inches, with the fins flexing to seat bases as wide as 3.15 inches.

There is no formal solvent-resistance testing on it, so treat a splash of brake cleaner, WD-40, or gear oil the way you would treat any plastic part on the bench — wipe it off before it sits for a long stretch. What is true structurally: it is one solid piece of flexible material with no fabric and no seams, so there is nowhere for oil to soak in permanently the way it can into raw wood or an MDF top.

No — both are ordinary beverage temperatures, well within what the base handles every day, and the sweating-can scenario is exactly the condensation problem it is built around. It does not insulate the drink itself; it just keeps whatever temperature the drink already is from ending up sideways on the bench.

Yes. Nothing clamps down or mounts permanently, so setting up a second one at the tool cart or the outfeed table while the first stays at the main bench is just setting another one down — no removing or reinstalling anything.

Not quite. A standard 16 oz Ball or Kerr regular-mouth pint jar measures about 3.38 inches across its base, past the 3.15-inch flex ceiling, so it will rock rather than settle. It is an honest no, the same way anything wider than that ceiling is.

A little, though both land comfortably inside the range. A standard 12 oz can — Coke, most beer, most soda — runs about 2.6 inches across its base, the same industry-standard body used on tall 16 oz energy-drink cans like Monster and Red Bull, just stretched taller. A slim or "sleek" 12 oz can, the shape a lot of hard seltzers and some energy drinks use, runs closer to 2.25 to 2.28 inches. Both settle in; the tall 16 oz format is just the tippier one to begin with, on account of its height.

It is built around the actual surfaces a shop offers — bench top, tool-chest lid, saw table, sawhorses — rather than just a toolbox side, so it fits woodworkers, mechanics, and general weekend tinkerers alike instead of one narrow habit. It ships free and arrives ready to use, no assembly or mounting required.

It is one piece of solid-color flexible material, not a paint coating over something else, so there is no painted layer to chip or peel. There is also nothing porous for oil or wood stain to soak into the way it soaks into raw wood or an MDF top — rinse it or run it through the dishwasher and it comes back clean.