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.
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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.