Why is this DVD cabinet such a pain in the ass to assemble?

[SackAttack]

And to those of you who have kids and have bought them toys with "some assembly required" - does this ever get easier?

[EagleFan]

Just remember that panel A connects to post M using the supplied screws and allen wrenches but first you must slide the backing panel labeled C into the groves at the edge of panel B. And for the love of all things that are holy do not over tighten.

[Peregrine]

I just put together a small Ikea cabinet - I thought I had it all right until I finished and found that there is an exposed piece at the bottom that's the plyboard color instead of the dark wood - now I don't know if I should take the whole thing apart again.

[SackAttack]

Just remember that panel A connects to post M using the supplied screws and allen wrenches but first you must slide the backing panel labeled C into the groves at the edge of panel B. And for the love of all things that are holy do not over tighten.

Heh.

What's pissing me off is, "attach panel A and panel B to panel C using screws 1 and 3...and now that there isn't really enough room to get a tool in there, use these screw locks, which you need to rotate with said unusable tool in order to get them to lock into place."

it took an hour and a half, but I *think* I'm past the embaldening part and can move on to the merely frustrating.

[SackAttack]

So there I am, lying on the floor to get a better view of the screw I'm trying to insert in a miniscule hole...and here comes this brownish-yellow bug, about an inch and a half long, with a bazillion legs.

This thing is getting finished tonight, because I sure won't be sleeping.

[SackAttack]

2 1/2 hours later, I've got the main storage area assembled and one door attached. I still have to get the other door attached, attach the backboard, and insert the shelving.

All of that...can wait for this evening.

I am exhausted.

[Subby]

Just use the cabinet that you built for your LaserDisc collection!

[Kodos]

Unless you want to display your collection for others, a better solution is to get a high-capacity CD case and shove the DVDs in that, and put the cases in a box in storage. Takes up a lot less space. I do that will all my CDs, DVDs, and game discs.

[Ksyrup]

Speaking of kids toys and "some assembly required," stay FAR away from those plastic kitchen sets. We bought one for our girls a few Christmases ago and figured we'd set it up the night before so it would be ready on Christmas Day, and it damn near took us all night. There must have been 5,782,467 separate pieces that needed to be detached from those plastic mold things, and then the main body of it all put together, etc. It would have probably been less painful to just have a real kitchen installed for them to play with.

[gstelmack]

Was that a Step 2 one? The Step 2 kitchen (and two beds) I've bought went together fairly easily.

For wood furniture, anything made by Sauder has been pretty decent to put together.

Both companies have also been great the time or two I've been missing a part or something. When we put together a Step 2 kitchen on Christmas Eve, one part didn't fit. I e-mailed them that night, and a week later found a box with a whole new assembly on my front porch...

[Mustang]

We bought these -

http://www.target.com/Oak-Media-Storage-Cabinet-Dark/dp/B0007IN52A/sr=1-5/qid=1240329798/ref=sr_1_5/175-3895087-2619013?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=0&index=target&rh=k%3Advd%20cabinet&page=1

No assembly required beyond putting the shelves in.

[sterlingice]

If it's your ass that is sore from assembling it, maybe you're doing it wrong ;)

SI

[Crim]

I'll tell you what -- we're gonna have to go ahead and get that man card from ya, Sack. Those cabinet dealies pretty much come with instructions, and generally require at most a Phillip's head screwdriver and maybe a hammer (just to nail the backing on).

Maybe just save the project for when you'll have some help putting it together, like at your next tea party, say, or when you're hosting a baby shower for one of your girlfriends. Idunno, a Pampered Chef party or something?

[SackAttack]

I'll tell you what -- we're gonna have to go ahead and get that man card from ya, Sack. Those cabinet dealies pretty much come with instructions, and generally require at most a Phillip's head screwdriver and maybe a hammer (just to nail the backing on).

It did come with instructions, yup.

Parts were labeled...mostly. Some were not, which meant I got to do a little detective guesswork to figure out what the unlabeled stuff was.

Even the little plastic bags that explode everywhere and force one to go on a screw-and-shit-hunting expedition, that wasn't so bad.

It's the fact that I started assembly at 1:30 in the morning, and it took until 5 in the morning just to get it *mostly* assembled, but the directions are so fucked up that they tell you to put parts A and B together, and then attach part C to them, even though, whoops, you don't really have enough room to get the philips head in there, and now you get to get CREATIVE.

Stuff like that.

I didn't say it was hard, I said it was a pain in the ass. :p

[JonInMiddleGA]

does this ever get easier?

Technically I think yes is the answer.

It's apparently after they move out and far enough away that you don't have to assemble the grandchildren's stuff.

[SackAttack]

Technically I think yes is the answer.

It's apparently after they move out and far enough away that you don't have to assemble the grandchildren's stuff.

:lol:

Thanks. I needed the laugh!

[SackAttack]

Took an hour and a half tonight to go with the 4 or 4 1/2 last night, but this motherfucker is finally finished.

[Kodos]

I always dump all the screws in a bowl so they don't disappear. We have a lot of Ikea stuff around the house.

[SackAttack]

So one of the two DVD towers I brought with me from California fell over with a horrific crash last night and spilled its contents across my bedroom.

Went out and bought another media storage rack this afternoon. Same company as the last one, although it's not a cabinet. Fewer pieces to assemble, so I'm hoping I can get it put together in less than six hours this time.

[sterlingice]

Some people never learn ;)

SI

[johnnyshaka]

Time to buy a case of beer and call a buddy/family member with handyman skills.

[SackAttack]

Some people never learn ;)

SI

Yeah, well, shows what YOU know.

The last one had two doors, each with two sides, a top, a bottom, a back, and a handle that needed to be assembled, plus eight pegs and four shelves each.

It had a main center piece with two sides, a top, a bottom, a back, three shelves and six pegs.

It had six hinges that were necessary to attach the doors to said center piece.

By my count, that's 26 pieces of wood product that needed to be assembled one way or another.

This one is a mere fifteen, and has no hinges or doors!

Time to buy a case of beer and call a buddy/family member with handyman skills.

I thought the case of beer was part of the assembly process.

The pieces are arranged on the floor, and I begin roughly now'ish. Target time of completion: before 5 am.

[SackAttack]

Finished, except for the shelving, but it didn't really take me 2:45 as the timestamp would imply.

I took probably an hour's worth of breaks to deal with some online stuff, but it took me longer than it should have because I put a piece on backwards.

Three times.