Lou Decruss wrote:
> 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.

What's an axis? I really am not good at math.