Well greetings dear readers,
I am sure you are already sick of listening to me complaining about the assembly instructions for furniture imported from China, so . . . grab the Pepto, here comes another one.
This project was a MCombo storage shed. here is finished project, actually looks kind of okay when done,
So here is my complaint, as you can see above there is a post running down the center front, here is a shot of the directions:
Hopefully you can see the two little rectangles on the post. Now it is POSSIBLE that the little markings on the cross pieces would have implied that this was a rear view, but why why why make me work so hard? (Also there is no indication of which end of post is top or bottom) Anyway, following that hint, here is how I initially put it together:
As you can see, this matches the rectangles showing in the instructions BUT what is not at all clear from these drawings is, that is a REAR VIEW of the post, it needs to go in so the rectangles are facing away, as they are there to support some cross beams to hold the shelves. (and there is no “poka yoke” to prevent incorrect installation) So here is, correct:
Next, the big shelf going full left to right, even though there are 2 pieces of wood on the sides looking like they hold that shelf, that is actually the floor of the shed. Again I had to do some disassembly to correct that error.
And it was also confusing how to put the back wall in . . .
All in all this took me 7.5 hours, with better directions would have taken 5.
I sometimes wonder what the mindset is of the folks who do this. I understand the language issues but surely they could give just a little more detail instead of constantly trying to do directions with as little information as possible.
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MCombo 6056- 1400D assembly
