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> On Monday, April 2, 2012 10:40:08 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
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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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > 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???
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?

I don't know but... I don't like to use paint and with a curious little
kitten in the house it probably wouldn't go so well. I wouldn't think most
paint would be washable though and if I did get that kind it would require
many coats of paint given how porous that wood is.