On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 21:00:01 -0700, "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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>>> >>
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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?
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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.

Nancy Young's suggestion; self stick floor tiles, inexpensive and easy
to cut with scissors. And washable paint is readily available, it's
called deck enamel, used to paint concrete floors but can be used on
wood too... both oil based and water based are available... there are
also very nice epoxy paints, more expensive but you don't need much
for lazy susans. Personally I'd remove those lazy susans and toss
them into the trash.