Argh - Self Assembly!

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  • #1
    So... I decided to buy a new office chair "easy self assembly" it said on the website.

    For over an hour and a half I've been trying to put it together, ended up ruining all the threads on the screws by putting it together wrong - so I thought if I twisted the arm were the screw was in it might "pop out" - Oh it popped out alright and snapped the metal of where it was connected to! :mad:

    Chair = no good, ready for the bin men. Waste of money!

    Why do they say things easy to assembly when they are not? I'm so annoyed! :mad:

    Keith can you come and assemble the new one I'll be ordering? :p
     
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  • #9
    estwig said:
    Flat pack is easy, all you need is a BIG hammer and don't expect to use all the bits they give you. Left over odds and sods are good, means you've done it right.
    ;)
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    It's also often a question of interpreting the instructions, or "destructions" as my family have called them in the past!

    Hubby and I love flat pack but our patience was tried recently when we were assembling a plastic shed we bought from Homebase. It took all day - literally - and hubby still had to spend more time on it :( using his own interpretation of the instructions, which were entirely diagramatic.
     
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  • #11
    Carl, just do what my husband does. We bought new shelves over a week ago. There was no swearing, no missing parts and no stress.

    So how did he manage that?

    By leaving them in the box...


    Or do what I do...leave them in the box and leave them for the wife! i think that's equality!
     
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