On Apr 2, 11:00*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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> > 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
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> >> to line them. *I guess technically they don't *have* to be lined
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> >> 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
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> >> 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)
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> >> and of itself is causing it to go off balance. *That and the way the
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> >> 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?
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> 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.

You don't like to use paint, but you willingly spray BUG SPRAY inside
a FOOD STORAGE AREA. I give up. I actually don't know how you manage
to wake up in the morning or use a computer.

N.