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On 4/3/2012 8:35 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 19:20:03 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
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>>>> In >, says...
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>>>>> Bull wrote:
>>>>>> In >,
>>>>>> "Julie > wrote:
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>>>>>>> But how do you make the pattern? What is it made of and how do you
>>>>>>> do it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The ones I have are a circle with a wedge cut out and have a lip all
>>>>>> the way around. Measure the diameter of the circle and cut one.
>>>>>> when you have the circle make a split to the center for the post.
>>>>>> Cut out the wedge. Tweak the pattern until it fits. Then trace to
>>>>>> the liner cut another one. Takes a little time but not that hard to
>>>>>> do. My house was built about 1990 and those were the thing then.
>>>>>> There are much better storage solutions today - but I'm not taking
>>>>>> mine out because I am never changing the cabinets. I know what's in
>>>>>> there and don't have a problem with it. It is way better than a
>>>>>> "dead space" corner. Mine are in the lower cabinets only.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I measure the diamater of the circle?
>>>>> I am not good with math.
>>>>
>>>> Jesus christ, you don't need to be good at maths to read a number on a
>>>> tape measure.
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>>> But you do to know what diameter is. And I don't know.
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>> Diameter is the measurement around the outside of the circle.
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> Thank you. That would be pretty hard to measure seeing as how I can't
> access all of it at once.

Listen Julie, the diameter of a circle is its full width across--the
length of a straight line running between two points that bisects the
center and creates two equal 180 degree arcs. The distance around the
outside of a circle is its circumference.