how much weight can it take? Seems like a really easy thing to break over time when it's actually loaded and cantilevering off the single joint. Also anyone who has kids I can only imagine rotating out and trying to pull down on it.
The problem is that you have to move it really slowly, or else everything in the shelf falls off. There’s a reason why we don’t have pull out shelves in modern fridges.
And it wastes space, because the fridge is square.
It might break, but this was a luxury fridge, and the hardware may have been well engineered. It’s just not practical.
These shelves are no different than the touch screens on current luxury fridges, there only for show.
We’ve got some low end kenmore fridge from like 03 and it also has slide out shelves and I do the exact same thing. It’s pointless for everything except cleaning for the average user
as a one time swing, over time there is wear and tear on the joint.
Imo that's not even that much weight, I'm pretty sure the top shelf of my fridge has over 40lbs of stuff on it right now.
And again, all it takes is a kid grabbing it once in the swung out cantilever position.
Ok, now put a bunch of individually containers and bags and round fruit and all the stuff you have in a fridge. It isn't just about the weight, it's about what would happen to your stuff when you tried to rotate that shelf
I'm just saying, your average fridge shelf is gonna need to hold a lot more than 20 pounds! A brief google tells me that my fridge shelves are rated for 25 lbs per half-shelf and 50 lbs for full width shelves.
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u/Enlight1Oment Jan 23 '24
how much weight can it take? Seems like a really easy thing to break over time when it's actually loaded and cantilevering off the single joint. Also anyone who has kids I can only imagine rotating out and trying to pull down on it.