On Monday, April 2, 2012 10:40:08 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > On Monday, April 2, 2012 11:12:13 AM UTC-5, Pennyaline wrote:
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> >> Why do things "fly off the shelves"? How hard to you spin the damned
> >> thing? I've dealt with those corner cupboard lazy susan things in my
> >> parents' homes and my siblings' homes, and I had them in one of my
> >> kitchens once, and I've not experienced anything flying off. Falling
> >> over, yes, but never falling off or flying anywhere.
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> > If things are flying off because you are having to use so much force to
> > turn this lazy susan then it needs to be adjusted so it will turn easily.
> > And why do these shelves HAVE to be lined???
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> They are made of porous wood. If I had the plastic ones, I wouldn't bother
> to line them. I guess technically they don't *have* to be lined especially
> since I have everything in the one cupboard in plastic containers. However
> the previous owner had lined them with Contact paper that was ripped and bad
> looking. It didn't peel up fully and neither did the paper that I put on
> there. So there's a lot of adhesive with paper stuck to it here and there.
> Looks like crap. Plus I sprayed the one with bug spray after I got the
> weevils. I would just feel safer to have a layer of something between it
> and my food.
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> My cupboard apparently isn't typical from what I have just looked at online
> because the cabinet front is attached to the lazy Susan. This (I think) in
> and of itself is causing it to go off balance. That and the way the cabinet
> front fits into the opening. I think the wood swells and causes it to
> stick. Sometimes it will only go one way and not the other.
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My double lazy susan has the cabinet door attached to the shelves and looke like a large pie wedge. How would those shelves fair if you painted them?