FIFOMini Can Tracker Stores up to 30 Cans | Rotates First in First Out | Storage for Home Cupboard, Pantry and Cabinet | Organize Your Kitchen | 4" Cans or Taller (Mini Can Tracker - 30 cans)

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These trackers are well conceived, allowing for older stock to be located and used first with newer stock bringing up the rear. The design is cleaver, but in order to accommodate a variety of can heights it comes with 5 sets of 3 widths of plastic (locking) dowels (2 short, 2 medium, 1 long) that lock the panels together. You use 3 of the 5 sets per kit resulting in three can slots or channels. If you combine 2 kits, you may attach them to yield 7 channels and so forth. I found I needed almost exclusively the short (“C”) dowels and even they were a bit too wide for soup & enchilada sauce (10 oz) cans. Works great for 14.5 oz cans (diced potatos, chili beans, chili, green beans). Thanks to a question answer from ‘SH’ I knew that 3/4” wood dowels could be substituted for the plastic dowels. I found that using 3/4” fender washers with 1/2” #8 pan head screws precluded the need for waiting for glue to set (though I did use some Gorilla glue as reinforcement). Four and 7/16th inch dowels worked well for 10.5 oz soup cans and 10 oz Rotel and Old El Paso enchilada sauce cans.Some people have complained that the wings on the panels that form the channels of too narrow allowing cans to fall through; however, when using the right sized dowels (corresponding to the size of the cans) this has not occurred. Minus one star for having to make my own dowels. The “C” (shortest) dowels are best for most cans on grocery store shelves. If the kits would have shipped with 3 C’s, and 1 each of the A & B dowels, it would easily garner 5 stars. Highly recommend if you don’t mind about one-half hour to customize a couple of kits.

I really like this item but it is very noisy when putting the cans in but relatively quiet when taking cans out. I wanted all three columns (U shaped) to accommodate the standard size can but you can only do two columns the same width. The third column must be smaller or larger width. I was able to cut about an inch or two out of the three long pegs and re-glue them using three small metal tubes and glue that way my third column was the same. Also fully assembled the unit would not fit inside the opening of my built-in pantry top shelf so I took the unit apart and then first put the parts inside the pantry top shelf and then reassembled it inside the pantry and it works very well. I like this item very much but I wish they would have included 9 standard pegs instead of just six pegs standard, 3 pegs short, 3 pegs long (it takes 3 pegs to make/strengthen a column) however I love it and I'm thinking about buying another one or two. There may be a hack to get 3 standard columns by just using two pegs on each column (use one peg across the bottom, one peg across the middle, and don't have a peg across the top). Another hack to get the third column the same would be to buy an appropriate size wooden dowel and cut into 3 pieces the same length as the standard pegs and then liquid nails glue in the three wooden pegs that you created across where the top peg would have been. Note that the bottom and middle pegs take the brunt of the horizontal forces so you may be successful with just two pegs per column. This may not be an issue for you if you want the third column to accommodate a different size can.

This will probably work for some but not all. The kit comes with 6 of type C pegs which are the correct size for cans in the upper left of photo 1, 6 of type B pegs with fit your big cans of soup, and 4 of type A pegs which I did not have any cans that size. There are no pegs for small size soup cans like in photo 2. you may think that's okay, a little extra room won't hurt. Wrong! Using the smallest pegs, the small soup cans are still small enough that they push apart the bottom of the slot. Doesn't look good. With only 6 of pegs B and C each. you can only have two positions for either type of can and you have to then have a third slot a different size. So be aware. Lastly, I had a really hard time getting the pegs to go though the openings, (I am a burly guy and not innept at assembling things) and i was killing my hand trying to push the pegs through the openings. I was htinking, do I need a dead blow hammer? Then I noticed this fine little lip of plastic on the edge of the opening (pic 3). Pretty sure, it's a remnant from the casting process. I trimmed it with a little knife and they would finally pop through. I am returning mine because they don't work for enough of the type cans I have.

I've ordered five of these before - the FIFO Countetop 30; great product. What I was sent this time was the Cansolidator 20; doesn't match what I have. Sent right back