Who the HELL puts things together with screw thingies smaller than PEPPERCORNS, fer crissake???!!!

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@farmerman,

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A dado has 3 sides while a rabbet only has 2

If you were a dado then we would have figured out you have a humorous side but since rabbets only have 2 sides, farmerman should be forgiven.

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@parados,

No....all the drawings looked the same.

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@parados,

Forgive him? Hmmmmmm......

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@dlowan,

NO written instructions?

Put thingie A in slot B. Screw until you hear a squeak. Repeat with others.

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You know, that damned shelf is still together. All these years later. In a new bathroom and still crooked.....but still together.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

And my mouth, I had to use my mouth.

Giggity!

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@DrewDad,

You know, seven years and two moves later, I still have that damned shelf system.

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@dlowan,

see? and I bet you know how to handle the littlest of screw fasteners neh?

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Fortunately you did not have to take it apart to move it.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

I would put a dado in the side boards

Baba Evda doesn't like it when you put Dado Nick in the sideboard. He's little , but still, respect your elders.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Fortunately you did not have to take it apart to move it.

Absofuckinglutely. I ain't never messing with no weeny weeny little black screws no more, no sirree.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

farmerman wrote:
I would put a dado in the side boards

Baba Evda doesn't like it when you put Dado Nick in the sideboard. He's little , but still, respect your elders.

Word

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@dlowan,

I off and on can't open ******* containers.

Mostly I can.
Sometimes I can't and hit my tool drawer. Just recently I used a complex of screwdriver, hammer, sharp knife.

One of these days I will ask the clerk to open the thing for me, which will of course bring aggravation to others, including the manager.

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@ossobucotemp,

Dollar store rubber gloves have been my life saver a few times - thin enough to feel things - grippy enough to force things open.

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@ehBeth,

Gotcha. I'm a longtime rubber glove person, snapped on to the fridge.

Sometimes things get worse.

Also, sometime long ago and far away, Dlowan posted about smacking the damned thing on the counter, upside down. That does work, once in a while.

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@ossobucotemp,

Almost always

Once it smashed

But this new plastic ****...Oy veh!

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Who the HELL puts things together with screw thingies smaller than PEPPERCORNS, fer crissake???!!!

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