Flatpack fun...

[Karlos]

After getting a few odds and sods from Ikea, and the joy of assembling things devoid of instruction...

[Karlos]

I should point out that this image was after getting a bed that had absolutely no assembly instructions at all :lol:

[Karlos]

Now that I got a digicam, I dare say you can expect a lot more silly stuff like this :lol:

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I can sense DIrtY Harry might pop up more in future. Credit where it is due, bolding the D I Y was GadgetMaster's idea ;-)

[Karlos]

Pah, I sneer at your electric screwdriver. As soon as the battery starts to flatten, it is weak and innefectual (I know, I have one :-D)

The one I took the picture of is limited only by the strength in your arm ;-)

[Karlos]

@odin...

It was the Malm that had no instructions :lol:

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:
"...The one I took the picture of is limited only by the strength in your arm ..."
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In that case, I sneer at your screwdriver  :-P

In that case, I sneer at your implicit admission that your arm is so enfeebled that you are unable to best an electric screwdriver (running on flattened battery as mentioned), using only the cranking action of your arm :-P

[Karlos]

GadgetMaster wrote:

Karlos wrote:


Real men use straight handled ratchetless screwdriivers with a wrong sized posidrive head. :-P

What, like I did to start with? :-D

[Karlos]

GadgetMaster wrote:
OMG!! I thought computing enthusiast were the only geeks.

IKEA Fans ...Now that is seriously scary... :nervous:  

At least they had the instructions for my new bed :lol:

[Karlos]

See a soggy piece of string, dangling wet and flaccid from the frayed edge of a shirt sleeve? Or a corroded elastic band, incapable of maintaining any tension or force lest it breaks pitifully?


I have seen such a degraded example of old material.


That's your bicep, that is. Atrophied and weak. That's why you need an electrical screwdriver to put screws into anything. Except you can't hold it either, so you need someone to do it for you.

[Karlos]

You don't need to get me started with History Today. Seriously :-D

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:
I only bought one flatpack item, and that was from Argos. It was a bit more involved than Karlos's shelves because it is a computer cabinet and desk. It has a sliding keyboard tray, CD slots, printer enclosure and doors on the front. I chose it because it was the only computer desk I could find that can accommodate an A4000T.
Took a long time to put together, even with instructions, and even though I had a better srewdriver than Karlos (I use a standard straight-handled Philips one  ;-) )
The doors are the {bleep}s.

Well, I should point out that the shelves were nothing. It was the instructionless bed that was the problem ;-)

Anyway, I have a straight phillips screwdriver and it was unable to fully tighten the screws on that beast. I see your poxy straight one and raise your the 34 piece high torque bent-handled ratchet screwdriver that owned those puppies in seconds where even an electric screwdriver gave up :-P

[Karlos]

adz wrote:
/me is the proud owner of nothing Ikea related or branded :-D

Don't judge me too harshly, mate. It was cheap and I needed in a hurry...

[Karlos]

GadgetMaster wrote:

Karlos wrote:

adz wrote:
/me is the proud owner of nothing Ikea related or branded :-D

Don't judge me too harshly, mate. It was cheap and I needed in a hurry...

How many levels of meaning can be read into that?  :lol:



/Me ducks

:roflmao:

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:

....and got dumped pretty badly. When I finally surfaced, coughing and spluttering, my swimming trunks were around my ankles and my watch was gone  :cry:

The rest of that paragraph is a blur. Just this section has enough double meaning to keep me rolling on the floor for days :lol:

[Karlos]

Well, it did the job anyway :-)