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How to Build Your Own Rotating Can Rack

Stop fumbling around for your spices, soups and canned vegetables with the use of a rotating can rack. This rotating rack consists of two levels to hold your canned items. Place it in a cupboard and browse through is contents with ease. Build your own rotating can rack using plywood and a lazy Susan bearing. Use a dowel as a support column between the two levels.

Things You'll Need

  • Pencil
  • Tape measure
  • Straightedge
  • Compass
  • 2 plywood sheets, 1/2-by-12-by-12 inches
  • Dowel, 1-by-8 inches
  • Band saw
  • Drill
  • Drill bit, 1-inch
  • 2 wood screws, 2-inch
  • Screw gun
  • Lazy Susan bearing, 8-inch, with screws
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Instructions

    • 1

      Draw a line from corner to corner on each 12-inch plywood sheet. The intersection of the lines is the center of the plywood. Draw a 12-inch diameter circle on one sheet and an 8-inch diameter circle on the second second sheet. Cut out the circles using your band saw. The 12-inch disk is the lower shelf to your rotating can rack and the 8-inch disk is the top shelf.

    • 2

      Drill a 1/4-inch deep hole in the centers of the disks and on the side with the lines. Insert the dowel into the hole on the 12-inch disc and screw through the plywood, into the dowel using one screw. Position your lazy Susan bearing over the 12-inch disk, opposite the side with the dowel -- so it is centered -- 2 inches away from the edges of the disk. Screw the bearing to the plywood in this position.

    • 3

      Insert the dowel into the 1/4-deep hole on the 8-inch disk. Screw through the disk and into the dowel using your last screw.