On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 07:31:07 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Bull" > wrote in message
...
>> In article >,
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>
>>> I have two of those lazy Susan type cupboards where the roundish shelves
>>> just sort of go around and around. The cupboard is not a complete
>>> circle.
>>> I had previously lined them with white Contact paper but that didn't work
>>> so
>>> well. I couldn't get a piece that was the right size so I wound up
>>> piecing
>>> some together. It looked like crap. I decided to remove the paper in
>>> the
>>> flour cupboard after I discovered the weevils. That cupboard has since
>>> had
>>> pretty much everything replaced except for the salt.
>>>
>>> The other cupboard has mainly canned goods but the liner is old looking
>>> and
>>> starting to rip.
>>>
>>> I have bought some of that spongy liner with the holes in it in the hopes
>>> that it will keep things from sliding. One problem I've had is stuff
>>> flying
>>> off the sides as the shelves spin around.
>>>
>>> But how to cut it? This might be easier to install because it is more
>>> flexible. I had purchased some white liner online that just didn't work
>>> at
>>> all. It was very stiff and slick and even when cut in pieces there
>>> turned
>>> out not to be enough of it. I am not sure the stuff I have now is big
>>> enough to be able to put just one piece in. I don't really know how to
>>> explain it but the curved design is baffling me. Also the fact that I
>>> can't
>>> access the entire cupboard at once. I can only get to like...half of it
>>> or
>>> so.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Or hmmm... Maybe I could pay my nephew to do the lining for
>>> me.
>>> He's had a heck of a lot more math than I have.
>>
>> I made a pattern. Cut the liner like the pattern and fit. If the
>> material isn't large enough make a butt seam and tape it on the
>> underside. (I used packing tape) Install fitted liner.
>
>But how do you make the pattern? What is it made of and how do you do it?
>
Measure from the axis to the end of the circle. Take a strip of paper
or cardboard and use a thumb tack to hold the axis and poke a hole at
the measured end and use a pencil through the hole to trace it on your
material. You'll need to trim it out at the axle.

Lou