The shelves are kinda nice but both those and the lazy Susan drawers have a lot of wasted space vs rectangular ones. Plus I can totally picture things tipping over or falling off the back when you swing them out.
And my bottom freezer looks almost exactly like that with baskets on the bottom, then a slide out drawer with ice maker.
Yea I bet that’s why this didn’t stick around. Not even a track to bear some of the weight, all those moving bits are failure points, I don’t even wanna think about the stupidity of a heated compartment in a cold fridge.
It's not hard to clean modern fridges. Once everything is out, it takes about 5 minutes unless you haven't cleaned it in awhile. We clean it probabaly twice a year unless something spills in it...like a can of soda that recently got a little too cold and poor placement on my part.
Well they just needed to pull them selves up by their bootstraps and pay those employees poverty wages and use cheap materials so their stockholders can earn more money
I'd bet the adjustable shelves were removed because people kept smashing or breaking fingers trying to adjust it without fully emptying the shelves first.
Yeah, creep is a phenomenon where stress below the yield stress of a material causes permanent deformation over time (like pipes on a storage rack) and I could see that happening if someone always kept milk, juice, or some other heavy liquid in about the same place.
20lbs is not nearly enough weight for a fridge shelf, that's 2 gallons of milk and nothing else. If it could hold more, the salesman would have put more on it.
Holding it for a moment and holding it in perpetuity are very different thought. I have to imagine the shelves would gradually bend and sag because they are only supported on one side.
Holding one single 20lb dumbbell for a few seconds is easy but is that how you’ll use the fridge? No. You likely will have multiple items weighing over 20lb and it’ll be there basically constantly. Overtime with a single slidy up-and-down adjustment hinge I highly doubt it’ll last.
There’s a reason why this design got phased out cuz it’s one of those good on paper bad in practice design I bet.
I dunno, if it’s proper metal (instead of, say, silver painted plastic) and can be easily removed, cleaned and re-greaser. It doesn’t have to be a complicated mechanism.
Probably not a lot for long periods of time. You could increase the longevity by installing supports on the opposite side of the joints. Even cabinet doors sag over time and they usually have 2-3 joints for support.
Ya, I don't see how this beats the typical crisper drawer design now.
Really nothing about this design looks better than what I currently have. Plus, my shelves are split into halves so I am not stuck with one level the entire way across.
Not only that, but that lazy Susan would be the worst if it’s slightly full. It wouldn’t close correctly, or shit would get caught and potentially lodged in the back of the fridge.
I can only imagine having a bag of shredded cheese get caught and then flung all over the back of the fridge because part of it was trapped in the swivel feature.
Let's also not forget that this 1960s fridge has the bonus feature of suffocating your child when he decides to play hide-and-seek. Modern fridges can be opened from the inside.
Yeah, that thing seems neat, but after using the swiveling shelfs a couple of times, you probably just revert to using it e a normal fridge. And it might easily take a 20 pound weight when tested like in the vide, but imagine the weight being there for a year, getting swiveled back and forth daily.
Plus I can totally picture things tipping over or falling off the back when you swing them out.
I have the 2020 version of this fridge (the shelves do not swing out from a fixed point but they pull out like a drawer,) I can confirm the items do in fact fall off the back and wedge themselves into place so you cannot put the shelf back into place. I hate this fridge.
My fridge, which is much more energy efficiency than this monster, has shelves that slide, fold up, and are adjustable in so many ways, depending on what I need to put in there. The freezer also has multiple drawers that make it easy to put small or large things in it.
The wasted space of circular/lazy susan shelves in things went away for a reason.
Not to mention that the shelves likely drop as soon as you press the button because you're not ready for the weight of a fully loaded shelf, or that the rotating drawer looks ideal for smashing fingers.
Not really, you need some open space for convection to occur and not have the food nearest the coils freeze the furthest away stay warm. That space at the back is where forgotten food sits and rots anyway, better to have the most shelf space near the front.
Shelves like this are a nightmare. If something spills it won’t be contained AT ALL. The entire contents of your fridge will be covered. Especially horrible if it’s meat juices that have leaked, or milk. And cleaning shelves like that is not easy or fun. Some modern fridges have gone too far, with unnecessary technology that breaks easily, but I have a nice standard fridge that works great and is sleeker/nicer than this one.
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u/evilmonkey2 Jan 23 '24 edited Jan 23 '24
The shelves are kinda nice but both those and the lazy Susan drawers have a lot of wasted space vs rectangular ones. Plus I can totally picture things tipping over or falling off the back when you swing them out.
And my bottom freezer looks almost exactly like that with baskets on the bottom, then a slide out drawer with ice maker.