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"Pennyaline" > wrote in message
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> On 4/3/2012 8:35 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "The > wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 19:20:03 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> In >, says...
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>>>>>> Bull wrote:
>>>>>>> In >,
>>>>>>> "Julie > wrote:
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>>>>>>>> > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>> But how do you make the pattern? What is it made of and how do you
>>>>>>>> do it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The ones I have are a circle with a wedge cut out and have a lip all
>>>>>>> the way around. Measure the diameter of the circle and cut one.
>>>>>>> when you have the circle make a split to the center for the post.
>>>>>>> Cut out the wedge. Tweak the pattern until it fits. Then trace to
>>>>>>> the liner cut another one. Takes a little time but not that hard to
>>>>>>> do. My house was built about 1990 and those were the thing then.
>>>>>>> There are much better storage solutions today - but I'm not taking
>>>>>>> mine out because I am never changing the cabinets. I know what's in
>>>>>>> there and don't have a problem with it. It is way better than a
>>>>>>> "dead space" corner. Mine are in the lower cabinets only.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I measure the diamater of the circle?
>>>>>> I am not good with math.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jesus christ, you don't need to be good at maths to read a number on
>>>>> a
>>>>> tape measure.
>>>>
>>>> But you do to know what diameter is. And I don't know.
>>>
>>> Diameter is the measurement around the outside of the circle.

>>
>> Thank you. That would be pretty hard to measure seeing as how I can't
>> access all of it at once.

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> Listen Julie, the diameter of a circle is its full width across--the
> length of a straight line running between two points that bisects the
> center and creates two equal 180 degree arcs. The distance around the
> outside of a circle is its circumference.


Julie is allergic to geometry.