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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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buldog5151bass said:
Shelves now are made from plastic, and since fridges are larger, more/heavier food stored there. They would never last.
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I assure you that shelves can be designed for this application that will last. I'm a mechanical engineer, I guarantee you I can design a shelf structure that will stand the gaff.

It may well have been that knuckleheads who insisted on standing on the swung-out shelves, or doing other stupid things, were the cause for that design's demise. I grew up in a family where we knew the value of a dollar and so we took care of our possessions, and said fridge never had any issues with the swing-out shelves. I don't even remember when my parents retired it, but it was probably when they moved out of that house and rented it out, because the fridge in question was not automatically defrosting and they probably couldn't rely on tenants to defrost it once a year.
 
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MonetBass said:
Actually, there are still milk delivery services, and they deliver much more than milk. The appeal? Well, in the Smith Brothers case, it's personalized service.
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We used Smith Brothers for milk delivery when we lived in Washington. Over the years they grew into quite the operation, offering all kinds of other items besides milk. We stopped having them deliver milk when they stopped delivering in glass containers and switched to cardboard.

-Mike
 
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turf3 said:
We had that fridge with the swing-out shelves when I was a boy. It was fantastic! It wasn't till I was nearly an adult that I realized NO ONE made them any more. Why not? No answer.
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We just saw one the other day. We're currently house shopping and one of the houses we looked at had an old fridge with those slide out doors. I had never seen one before. The realtor did mention that while it's quite old, you'll run into them now and then around these parts.
It's also not uncommon up around here to run into a fully functional Hoosier cabinet.

-Mike
 
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turf3 said:
I assure you that shelves can be designed for this application that will last. I'm a mechanical engineer, I guarantee you I can design a shelf structure that will stand the gaff.

It may well have been that knuckleheads who insisted on standing on the swung-out shelves, or doing other stupid things, were the cause for that design's demise. I grew up in a family where we knew the value of a dollar and so we took care of our possessions, and said fridge never had any issues with the swing-out shelves. I don't even remember when my parents retired it, but it was probably when they moved out of that house and rented it out, because the fridge in question was not automatically defrosting and they probably couldn't rely on tenants to defrost it once a year.
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I'm sure it can be, but ot isn't. We've had to replace a shelf on a fridge that cracked, and we don't overload it.
 
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