P365.2-5, Day 11 - Technical Difficulties Of A Different Sort

[grundyscribbling]

Behold, the most troublesome piece of Ikea furniture I've ever assembled. (I generally regard Ikea stuff as Lego for grownups. But Legos do not break when you realize two steps later you misread the picture in the instructions and have to undo/backtrack. Two wooden pegs did.) At least the library books are no longer stacked on the floor underneath the window, or in an increasingly precarious pile on the table.

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Comments

[heartofoshun]

I recognize that unit! Ours did not break when we assembled it, but it broke within a couple of years. I am sure you could have fixed it. But we did not have the tools or patience so we gave it away to someone who did.

[grundyscribbling]

I've had good luck with Ikea in general (typing at a desk from there, 20 years old and counting) but I've never had any wooden pegs break like that before.

I did know how to fix it - my toolbox was all of ten steps away, so once I stopped grumbling (and by 'grumbling', I actually mean cussing a blue streak at both whoever did the instruction booklet and the braindead lobcock in QC who passed the wooden pegs as being up to par) and got the drill it only took a couple minutes to get them out. And as I fortunately had bought more than one of the same, the single spare peg in each box was enough to replace the broken parts!

[ysilme]

Lego for grownups, indeed! XD But I hear you on the issue of backtracking. I once fittet a pice of a billy the wrong way and was unable to unlock something; we needed to go back to the store and have somebody show us. *rolls eyes*

[grundyscribbling]

Right? The backtracking is a problem!
It took a drill, appropriate drill bit, screw of the right size, screwdriver, and pliers to fix it, then cannibalizing what should have been the spare from both that box and another one. (It took less time doing than telling. But still - you should be able to backtrack without needing power tools!)