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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: billt on March 24, 2010, 06:03:21 PM
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I will never do this ever again! Melanie wanted this nice Oak kitchen island. So I told her to just go ahead and just get it.
Big mistake!! I thought because of the price it came assembled. Even bigger mistake! I will never build another piece of furniture again! Ever. Never Ever Again! It all worked out OK, but my God what a pain in the a$$! I never assembled so much crap in my entire life! I would rather build a bolt action rifle with a hammer, chisel, and a file! Don't ever do this guys. I'm telling you now, buy the damn thing totally assembled, no matter what it costs! It does look really nice but it only took 1 hour to mount my scope on my new Kimber 8400 with lapping and all. This pig took 7 1/2 hours start to finish!! She is happy though, and so am I, so I guess that is all that matters. Just take it from me..... buy it already built!!! Bill T.
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so I take it you won't be going to Ikea any time soon then
hehe we don't normally get Furniture like that most of the time it is solid timber gear
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IKEA = Napalm. Low level, high airspeed, bank right, release, laugh as the helpless villagers die by the thousands. It is only what is right. Bill T.
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And obviously Storehouse.com isn't on your list either.
one thing I've learned from "assembling" all this furniture is how to make my own......better.
THEN THE EVIL SIDE takes over and want to know: Do they sell NOT READY TO ASSEMBLE furniture?
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How many languages do the instructions cover now?
Been there, it is truly awful...
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I'm with you, my wife bought everything for my son's room from IKEA. I'm talking like bed, shelves, dressers, chairs, table and so on. I spent a lot of time crawling on the floor with an Allen wrench.
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Two words: Operator error ;D
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Ikea truly was started by a former Nazi, suspected of War crimes.
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"Ready To Assemble" Furniture is where manufacturing tolerances come in to play BIGTIME!!!!! Been there done that. I couldn't agree more.
Richard
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The worst thing are the damn hand drawn diagrams. You would think for the price, along with the fact we now live in the digital age, they could at least include detailed actual photographs, instead of drawings that look like they were hand drawn by a third grader 20 minutes after receiving a shot of Demerol. Bill T.
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You want to have a good laugh, or a total brain melt down, try reading the instructions for a CNC milling Machine.
They are written in Japanese and then translated by a Japanese speaker who can write English, so they use Japanese structure and don't always get the right word. What they should do is have the translation done by an English speaker who can read Japanese.
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You want to have a good laugh, or a total brain melt down, try reading the instructions for a CNC milling Machine.
Or try to figure out the alarm codes. The book has 'em all. Except the one you get. Bill T.
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BTDT ;D
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Year ago I worked at toy'r'us over the xmas season. I basicly put every thing toegther. There was this one play set that had they pastic pins that would not come out after you put them in. the 1st page of the instructions said.
"thank you for buying......"
page 2 was
"now that you have attempted to assymble the play house and failed, thank you for reading the instructions."
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The worst thing are the damn hand drawn diagrams. You would think for the price, along with the fact we now live in the digital age, they could at least include detailed actual photographs, instead of drawings that look like they were hand drawn by a third grader 20 minutes after receiving a shot of Demerol. Bill T.
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Kathy bought an entertainment center like that when we got the new flat screen. (I wanted to just hang it on the damn wall and be done with it, but noooooooooooooo)
It took 4 hours, 5 beers and 3 bloody knuckles to get that thing together, at which point she said, "Now that I see it together I'm not sure I like it."
I placed my hands gently on her shoulders, looked lovingly into her eyes, and replied, "Too f***ing bad!!"
I don't remember anything after that.
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HazJr and I are MASTERS at this. The GF buys a lot of her furniture this way.