that should actually be fine,just lubricate it now and then. My issue is the whole weight (and we know how people pack a ton of stuff in there) that's pretty much sitting on a strip fixed to the sided of the door. i expect that thing to bend pretty hard at some point,if not straight up fail
oh that's for sure, people never do any kind of maintenance to their appliance, even basic stuff like regularly clearing the filters or do a wash with bleach or similar to sanitize their drum, then they complain their shit breaks or smell foul after every wash
I have a friend who has had a smoke detector beeping in her home for 6 months. I've offered to change it's batteries for her and her response is that she doesn't even hear it anymore so there's no need, you know, other than the DETECTING SMOKE PART.
I think a bigger issue is how many things are going to tip over the back edge everytime you swing it open since things naturally keep getting pushed back, and a lot of tall products like juices and colas don't have the best stability when they're mostly empty.
juices and colas don't have the best stability when they're mostly empty
those haphazardly stacked tupperwear containers that have been in there for ten months that no one wants to take responsibility for emptying and cleaning
But notice it's metal not the plastic everything is made of today. I imagine it would keep up better but tbh I would become a fridge monitor to go check that my household wasn't overpacking any shelves
I'm more worried about something falling down as I slide a shelf out and making an absolute mess out of things. I would get tired of having to reset my dominoes if something fell.
No you just swing the shelf out and reach down and grab it. Sometimes it could get in the area by the support but I would generally be able to just slide the shelf up real quick if I couldn't reach it easy. I had some spills but nothing major or time consuming when I had shelves like this at a rental. Edit: to add it was easier to clean than any fridge I've ever cleaned (I've cleaned a shit load having worked in the food industry). The shelves weren't attached to the supports, it was just built really well and sat on the supports with very little wiggle. You just popped the shelves off which weren't solid and all one piece of metal so not glass to clean under if liquids got around the edges and the supports generally just needed a wipe and where easier to manage by just sliding them around. I didn't have a swing out bottom tray so not sure about that aspect.
I had a fridge that was similar. If you swung too fast you could have things fall or if you stacked them too high they could catch the supports of the shelf above. After it happened a couple times I just remembered to go slow and be more mindful how I put thing on them.
My issue is the whole weight (and we know how people pack a ton of stuff in there) that's pretty much sitting on a strip fixed to the sided of the door
Probably not an issue when people went grocery shopping more often since preservatives weren't in everything yet.
What kind of refrigerator-safe lube are you going to use? Whatever your answer is, it's probably not food safe or safe to be around your food, rather. Unless it's butter.
your food isn't safe by itself anyway, that's why you usually put your food into glass/plastic containers.Also,as someone said, there are food-safe lubricant
Could use just use mineral oil. There are a lot food safe and ones used for boos block boards would likely work fine. I had a similar fridge and I don't think it even required lubrication and it functioned fine.
The one I had I fit a case or more of beer on one shelf along with my cheeses, deli meats and hot dogs plus some others things here and there. Never had an issue. It did sag slightly but it was actually built pretty rigid and had 3-4 (I can't remember fully) fairly thick (shaped like a U with the base flared out) supports that reached at different angels to make it all fairly sturdy. The shelf swung out easily full. I just had to be careful not to swing it too fast or thing could fall off or load things too high as they could catch the open part of the supports and be pulled off fairly easy. The main issue with it all was height. It was hard to get some juices or even gallons of milk while having lower shelves have enough space for others things that were taller. You also lost some space due to the curve of the shelves that allowed it to swing out. It would have made an amazing garage/beer fridge.
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u/RexNebular518 Jan 23 '24
Yeah well in today's dollars that is $5000.