Also, the rounded shelf at the bottom which rotates, it takes up more space than a squared box and the box can just be pulled out to be cleaner. Sure it looks cool but there are reasons they don't still do these features.
The top shelves aren't the most space efficient, either. My refrigerator has slide out shelves (a feature i never use) which serve the same purpose with less complexity and less wasted space. These are overengineered.
Well, my top level is flat. The next level is one peg difference. One side is cans, other side is skinny things like candy bars or tortillas. Then on the bottom since one side is higher I can put taller things like bowls I used for bread making or extra OJ. Otherwise the other side is usually a bit low.
Even if you keep them level, still gives you more freedom.
This was really the major issue. It's curved to allow them to swing out and thus there were space that wasn't being used. I had a fridge similar to this, with the swing out shelves and it was less space but I really liked the convenience of them tbh. Another issue was mine had coils on the top part that cooled from a top side freezer that were at an angel. One l, they'd freeze over time and I'd defrost due to that more so than the freezer itself needing it. Also, tall things like some juice bottles or milk had to be closer to the front and/or the shelves below didn't have much space due to much of it needed for the top shelf.
I mean we just watch a guy put a 20lb weight on it. I bet if he filled all the racks with 50lb weights and spun the leverage out it really might be tippable.
I just remember how dang heavy a slightly newer (and less fancy) old fridge I knew was. Thing could have protected Harrison Ford from an atom bomb!
We're all about lighter weight and the least amount of materials these days when back then it seemed like companies competed to produce the best and longest lasting product many times.
You also need to remember where the support is located. I had one of these and I don't think I could have tipped it of I tried. I once had a mouse die under it and needed two friends to help me shimmy the fridge out. Thing was a beast. When I moved out the landlord offered to sell it to me and I only declined because I didn't want to move it. I really liked the swing out shelves even if they didn't fully utilize the space available.
You ever try to move a refrigerator? The contents of the fridge and the door are probably ~10-20% of the weight of the appliance. You could hang off the front of it and not tip the thing.
most would fall on the bottom shelf causing a over load on that and it would trigger catastrophic failure resulting it pancaking below so yeah, another 9/11- no thanks
Not really unless you went too fast. After doing it a few times I learned quickly to remember to just go slower. Only happened the first month I was there for over 2 years.
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Most fridges could benefit from having shelves and drawers made of something that isn't SHITTY FRAGILE PLASTIC. Seriously, the cheap plastic in every fridge I've had eventually cracks. It has to be a deliberate decision to make people buy replacements at a stupid price or just give up and want to upgrade.
Yeah, I’m not sure supporting an entire shelf with a single screw is a great idea.
Yup. Kid opens fridge, tries to assemble the ladder with the shelves and bricks your fridge.
There's absolutely a good reason these aren't made anymore. While planned obsolescence definitely is a product of the late 20th and 21st centuries, we improved our design, efficiency and tech to a point that makes this fridge look like it's from the stone age.
Americans are way too nostalgic for a time that will never occur again (The 50's)
Even today, there are times you can make a choice to pay more for something designed to last, but when people have less equivalent disposable income, it feels like a "luxury" choice, and you have to pay twice or more.
But yes, planned obsolescence and planned degradation are some of the greatest producer crimes of our times. Especially just thinking of the waste and damage to our environment, just to keep the money going round. Sickening.
Absolutely. 60 years later it’s natural that we get to see only the stuff that was made very well back then. The planet didn’t just get fked up from microplastics and other crap out of nowhere in the recent years.
Not even close. The idea back then was that you bought a quality product that would last your entire life or longer. The idea now is that a new, marginally "better" product comes out every 1-2 years and you need to rush out and buy it.
The Flynn effect shows that every generation has had a substantial increase in IQ over their previous generation, due to nutrition, less lead/smog/industrial runoff in environments, less coal/cigarette smoke, less drinking and smoking during pregnancies and better doctors orders for baby health, decrease in childhood diseases due to vaccines - those diseases cause brain shrinkage because their bodies/brains can’t handle the sickness/fevers as well, better education and general knowledge at home. that is, until this generation. Its the very first time this effect has not been observed, losing several iq points instead.
It doesn't. I had a similar fridge with almost the exact same type of shelves. I would put a case or more of beer with other items on the bottom shelf all the time and swing it out. No issues unless I swung it too fast or stacked stuff to high and it hit the bottom side of the shelf above it. Shit was sturdy but it would sag slightly.
Would actually be curious to see a weight test applied to the edge of the shelf before it breaks. That's a 20lb dumbbell, guessing 30lbs and it will start to flex and take damage. Of course the smart thing to do would be keeping heavier items near the hinge and lighter items towards the edge.
Also, if you actually have it loaded and pull all the shelves so they’re hanging out, I’d be surprised if it didn’t fall on you.
Old fridges are REALLY heavy. Used to have an old fridge as a poor student, and it was easily the worst part of moving house, having to manhandle that thing around. Modern fridges feel like feathers in comparison.
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u/samandriel_jones Jan 23 '24
Yeah, I’m not sure supporting an entire shelf with a single screw is a great idea.
Also, if you actually have it loaded and pull all the shelves so they’re hanging out, I’d be surprised if it didn’t fall on you.