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Chest Freezer Basket Shims

Our new chest freezer has three baskets sliding along ridges just under the lid, but they seem to be just slightly too short for the ridge spacing. After having a basket fall off the rails once too often, I cut shims from 3 mm white acrylic and stuck them in place with double-sided foam tape to soak up the extra space:

Chest freezer basket shims
Chest freezer basket shims

Each shim is 300×8 mm with the neatly rounded corners that are easy to do with a laser. They may not look like they grew there, but it’s tidy enough.

Perhaps the situation should have become a warranty claim, but a few minutes applying a tool to material I have on hand made the problem Go Away.

Which is entirely good enough for me and pretty much what I do around here most of the time anyway.

Comments

2 responses to “Chest Freezer Basket Shims”

  1. dithermaster Avatar
    dithermaster

    We have some IKEA storage drawers that had a similar problem, and shims provided a similar solution.

    Our replacement lower dishwasher rack arrived riding lower than the original, and the spinner hit. Larger wheels printed in PETG melted but Delrin cut on the CNC are still working. Somehow that was less work than doing a return and finding another, which might have had the same issue.

    1. Ed Avatar

      Not surprised to learn we’re not alone in the bendy support situation. :grin:

      The dishwasher rack protectors were still working fine when we sold the house. I built them in 2013, probably with ABS, which accounts for them not getting melty, but Delrin seems like a better choice for load-bearing wheels.

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