"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> "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.
>
>
> Julie,
>
> I have the same lazy susans. The door takes up 1/4 of the shelves.
>
> How about a little "pizza geometry?"
>
> Your liners should look like this:
>
> http://oi43.tinypic.com/r87511.jpg
>
> Start with large pizza and trim around the "crust" to fit the shelf.
>
> Once one liner fits use that to duplicate as many as needed by tracing
> the shape and cut with scissors.

Yes! The problem is that the liner I think is not big enough to do that.