I have a small kitchen and the uppermost cabinet shelves are inaccessible without a stool. Ready-made pull-down shelves are simply too expensive, so I'd like to build my own.
What kinds of hardware should I be looking for (how would I recognize it when searching catalogs or the web), how hard is it to install, and are there any tips for doing it better/more easily?
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I'd consider building one of these as out of the scope of even my abilities, and I have access to a full machine shop / prototyping facility and own almost every tool known to man. The intricacies of these articulating mechanisms, which must be extremely robust to handle the forces involved, and which probably have highly tensioned springs inside them, would put me off to even attempting this.