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Sat 31 Jan, 2009 03:38 am
I mean, all right, if it's a MODEL.
But, I just spent forever putting together a shelf thingy, and you made the shelves by screwing in things THE SIZE AND COLOUR OF PEPPERCORNS!!!
I mean, they KNEW you were going to lose some (my bathroom floor is a similar colour..well, more charcoal, really...have I ever told you what a bad colour charcoal is for floors? Ok, it LOOKS good, but you can see everything on there, except, of course, for peppercorns, but I digress...) because they gave you heaps opf spares. Well, three. I have one left over.
DON'T GIVE SPARES, MAKE THE DAMN THINGS A DECENT SIZE!!!!
May I add the damn shelves are a bit crooked....well, of course they are, I was holding the shelf up with one hand, and wrangling PEPPERCORNS and a teensy weensy allen key with the other. And my mouth, I had to use my mouth.
What nonsensical nonsense have you had to put up when self-assembling?
Are you still sane?
Why do we DO it?
Such shelves are usually made in China so your screaming and carrying on like a mad woman will have no impact here.
Take some pieces of poplar and copy the sizes from these shelves (You would be using these shelves as a pattern) and then using real screws or a power nailer. do em up right. I do this often for quick assmbly furniture.
(I would put a dado in the side boards to act as a shelf reciever. This imparts extra strength to an otherwise wobbly piece of crap that you get at Ikea.
My work is done here.
@dlowan,
a dado is a channel cut through the wood, usually across grain. It acts like a slot where the shelf can be inserted . It makes the shelf stronger than just hoping that the screws hold the shelving together.
Glad to see youve calmed down,
You painted quite an hilarious picture, Miss Wabbit . . .
@Setanta,
Hmm, fixing peppercorns with paint ...
I don't believe the peppercorns needed fixing, Walter . . . it appears that they were in need of assembly . . .
@farmerman,
Yep. Cross grain is a dado. With the grain it's a, well, rabbit. I kid you not.
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
a dado is a channel cut through the wood, usually across grain. It acts like a slot where the shelf can be inserted . It makes the shelf stronger than just hoping that the screws hold the shelving together.
Glad to see youve calmed down,
What wood?
It's all metal.
You don't really DO humour, do you?
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
You painted quite an hilarious picture, Miss Wabbit . . .
Yay...someone got the humour.
Mind you, it was VERY FRUSTRATING.
@dlowan,
I wasnt going for humor, you seemed so hysterical at first. (Unless your keyboard was stuck on caps)
Here is a woodwork link so we dont add any more confusion to the distinction twixt the dado and the RABBET joint. A dado has 3 sides while a rabbet only has 2
http://www.americanfurnituredsgn.com/Rabbet%20&%20Dadoe%20Joints.htm
You didnt state that it was metal shelving dearie, you were too busy screaming. If its metal shelves ya want , just weld em together. Jeezus. Now get yourself together, people are getting up on our side of the date line .
@farmerman,
You STILL don't get humour.
a. I was not asking for help, this is a silly thread. The shelves are together.
b. If I tried to weld these (if I had a welder) they'd melt.
@Phoenix32890,
Look, just come and have fun about DIY torture.
Didn't the Lilliputians give SOME indication?
I WILL be hysterical soon if more people come and get all earnest and such.
@dlowan,
WEll JEEEZ, excuuuuuuuuuuse me for entering your little warren with advice about your new little shelves on which to store your carrots.
@farmerman,
I so don't store carrots near the toilet.
@dlowan,
eventually you store them IN the toilet.
And to answer your original question....apparently you do.
@farmerman,
The page cannot be found (just like the little perppercorn thingies)
@Bi-Polar Bear,
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
eventually you store them IN the toilet.
And to answer your original question....apparently you do.
Only because I didn't know they were there until after I began assembling it.
You know...you can be a teensy bit vulgar sometimes.
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