WestofYouLB
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We bought a house with a corner inset cupboard with two lazy susan shelves.
Each shelf is mounted on an axle which in turn is mounted on a separate shelf (call it the base shelf) below the lazy susan shelf. Near the front of the base shelf on the user's left, there is a ball bearing mounted in a fitting. The fitting holds the ball bearing so about 40% is visible, and the ball bearing is spring-mounted on a strong spring so it can be depressed.
When the LS shelf is rotated, it rotates freely. But there is another fitting on the underside of the LS which is intended to engage somehow with the ball bearing on the base shelf as a stop.
My problem is that getting the fitting on the LS fitting to engage with the ball bearing is very difficult. You have to really force it.
I think there must be an adjustment somewhere to make the ball bearing engage without depressing it so much, but all the online articles I saw assumed that the LS shelf was scraping on the shelf below them, and adjustments could be made on the axle to raise the LS to a proper height. Not in this case, AFAICT.
Anybody seen this arrangement? I think it's a bit outdated, as the installation was ~2001.
Thanks.
Each shelf is mounted on an axle which in turn is mounted on a separate shelf (call it the base shelf) below the lazy susan shelf. Near the front of the base shelf on the user's left, there is a ball bearing mounted in a fitting. The fitting holds the ball bearing so about 40% is visible, and the ball bearing is spring-mounted on a strong spring so it can be depressed.
When the LS shelf is rotated, it rotates freely. But there is another fitting on the underside of the LS which is intended to engage somehow with the ball bearing on the base shelf as a stop.
My problem is that getting the fitting on the LS fitting to engage with the ball bearing is very difficult. You have to really force it.
I think there must be an adjustment somewhere to make the ball bearing engage without depressing it so much, but all the online articles I saw assumed that the LS shelf was scraping on the shelf below them, and adjustments could be made on the axle to raise the LS to a proper height. Not in this case, AFAICT.
Anybody seen this arrangement? I think it's a bit outdated, as the installation was ~2001.
Thanks.