On 3/04/2012 7:51 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> Lou Decruss wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 07:31:07 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> In >,
>>>> "Julie > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have two of those lazy Susan type cupboards where the roundish
>>>>> shelves just sort of go around and around. The cupboard is not a
>>>>> complete circle.
>>>>> I had previously lined them with white Contact paper but that
>>>>> didn't work so
>>>>> well. I couldn't get a piece that was the right size so I wound up
>>>>> piecing
>>>>> some together. It looked like crap. I decided to remove the
>>>>> paper in the
>>>>> flour cupboard after I discovered the weevils. That cupboard has
>>>>> since had
>>>>> pretty much everything replaced except for the salt.
>>>>>
>>>>> The other cupboard has mainly canned goods but the liner is old
>>>>> looking and
>>>>> starting to rip.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have bought some of that spongy liner with the holes in it in
>>>>> the hopes that it will keep things from sliding. One problem I've
>>>>> had is stuff flying
>>>>> off the sides as the shelves spin around.
>>>>>
>>>>> But how to cut it? This might be easier to install because it is
>>>>> more flexible. I had purchased some white liner online that just
>>>>> didn't work at
>>>>> all. It was very stiff and slick and even when cut in pieces there
>>>>> turned
>>>>> out not to be enough of it. I am not sure the stuff I have now is
>>>>> big enough to be able to put just one piece in. I don't really
>>>>> know how to explain it but the curved design is baffling me. Also
>>>>> the fact that I can't
>>>>> access the entire cupboard at once. I can only get to like...half
>>>>> of it or
>>>>> so.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas? Or hmmm... Maybe I could pay my nephew to do the
>>>>> lining for me.
>>>>> He's had a heck of a lot more math than I have.
>>>>
>>>> I made a pattern. Cut the liner like the pattern and fit. If the
>>>> material isn't large enough make a butt seam and tape it on the
>>>> underside. (I used packing tape) Install fitted liner.
>>>
>>> But how do you make the pattern? What is it made of and how do you
>>> do it?
>>>
>> Measure from the axis to the end of the circle. Take a strip of paper
>> or cardboard and use a thumb tack to hold the axis and poke a hole at
>> the measured end and use a pencil through the hole to trace it on your
>> material. You'll need to trim it out at the axle.
>
> What's an axis? I really am not good at math.
>
>
See George Bush' "Axis of Evil" or, simplified version, 3 countries that
don't like the US.

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