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"Play it again, Sam" was never spoken in
the movie, Casablanca. Piano hinges
are perfectly appropriate and can be most
effective for wine cellar cabinet doors than refrigerator
or pivot hinges, depending upon such factors as the materials used,
the weight of the door or the specific structural design.
There is no functional distinction between the alternatives in
general.
George Washington never chopped
down a cherry tree - as a child or at anytime thereafter.
Manufactured wine cellar cabinets share
an average insulation value of R6 - R8, which is more than
sufficient in household applications. Claims of R-12 are
undocumented and unnecessary.
There is not a single recorded
instance of a human being killed by piranhas. Carpet in a wine cellar is about the goofiest claim
we've heard any vendor make. Carpet will absorb moisture, grow
mildew and stink.
There were 13
stars on the Confederate flag, but only 11 Confederate States.
The second goofiest claim is that lighting should be
fluorescent. Fluorescent lighting is ultra violet
lighting. It kills things. Your wine collection is
organic and undergoing chemical reactions as it ages. Do not
introduce fluorescent into a wine storage enclosure. OK, maybe
fluorescent lighting is just as goofy as carpet ....
Mark Twain gets credit for, "There
3 kinds of lies - lies, damn lies and statistics." Benjamin
Disraeli actually said it first. BTU ratings are routinely manipulated for marketing
purposes. Meaningful capacities are a function of
ambient temperature, length/frequency of operation and other
external factors. A properly sized system is a properly sized
machine for a given enclosure - equipment too large for a given
sized space will undermine the integrity of the storage
environment.
Our focus on
accurate information will allow clients to realize that
assembly line environments are not conducive to "hand-crafting"
anything ... that materials and equipment used by such
are usually the result of which supplier provided them
the cheapest cost, as opposed to the "highest
quality" ... that such species as"cherry" and "mahogany"
exteriors can entail a very wide spectrum
of esthetics (Asian versus American versus Honduran,
etc.)
Most folks over the age of 12 realize
that exaggeration is intrinsic to advertising,
that subjective claims by resellers and manufacturers are going
to be self-serving and, well, exaggerations to some extent.
But just because a "Fact" has been published on a web
site, repeated in a forum or is "common knowledge" does not make it
true or relevant.
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