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CEO of IKEA elected Prime Minister in Sweden

Headline almost got me.

Ikea has a bad rap but I've used plenty of their stuff and it's much better than it's cost would indicate, which is really saying something nowadays.

Fine for dorm/college/first job out of college stuff or kids bedrooms.

One trick that I've found helps quite a bit is to put some wood glue wherever the furniture calls for dowels (just a dab on both ends). Increases the sturdiness of the furniture a lot, but measure twice cause once it's all together it's never coming apart again.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
Headline almost got me.

Ikea has a bad rap but I've used plenty of their stuff and it's much better than it's cost would indicate, which is really saying something nowadays.

Fine for dorm/college/first job out of college stuff or kids bedrooms.

One trick that I've found helps quite a bit is to put some wood glue wherever the furniture calls for dowels (just a dab on both ends). Increases the sturdiness of the furniture a lot, but measure twice cause once it's all together it's never coming apart again.
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I like the bit of stuff I've bought from there, but mother fuck their assembly manuals.
 
Assembling stuff would be so much easier if they just marked the parts properly. I don't know about Ikea since we don't have one here but I just put together a Marathon trailer kit and those instructions were bad, in the sense that nothing was really labeled. "Take #42 bolts and #81 nut and assemble the side channel". Which bolts are those, which nuts are those, what's the side channel? None of it is labeled. What they should do is not only label each bag and each part but put stickers near the holes to indicate what hardware and part joins there. You would practically not even need instructions at that point. They would be mostly just for reference in case a sticker fell off.

Got to hand it to Ikea and other companies that make self assembly products though, there's a whole science that goes into designing these things so it can fit in such a small box with small footprint.
 
I wouldn't dare to try to assemble stuff.

I'm horrendously bad at trying to assemble PCs (if you saw my work, you would either get a hernia from laughing till it hurts or you would put me far, far away where I can never assemble another PC again!).

One of my most embarrassing moments was when trying to install an Epyc CPU cooler. I don't know if instructions were inside or if I simply ignored them because I thought I could quickly do it myself. Heatsinks should be easy, right? Well, no. I kept screwing stuff in the wrong way and then it wouldn't fit on the CPU socket properly. Finally had to watch a youtube video and got the Aha! moment from it. Good thing that the CPU was already placed in the socket. Pretty sure I would've damaged the CPU installing it myself.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Assembling stuff would be so much easier if they just marked the parts properly. I don't know about Ikea since we don't have one here but I just put together a Marathon trailer kit and those instructions were bad, in the sense that nothing was really labeled. "Take #42 bolts and #81 nut and assemble the side channel". Which bolts are those, which nuts are those, what's the side channel? None of it is labeled. What they should do is not only label each bag and each part but put stickers near the holes to indicate what hardware and part joins there. You would practically not even need instructions at that point. They would be mostly just for reference in case a sticker fell off.

Got to hand it to Ikea and other companies that make self assembly products though, there's a whole science that goes into designing these things so it can fit in such a small box with small footprint.
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If you cannot follow IKEA instructions, you should not hold a screwdriver.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Honestly PCs are easier than most furniture lol.
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Have you bought a recent PC case? It has a WHOLE rat nest of cables coming out of it and most cheap PC cases do not come with any instructions on what those cables do. It's very, very confusing. Then trying to route the PSU cables from the bottom to the top of the mobo, sheer hell! Everything related to PC building is annoyingly difficult these days. And this is before you start doing anything interesting. I have installed two AIO coolers. Deepcool branded one was really easy and made sense. Cougar's AIO cooler's instructions made no sense. I still have cables coming out of it that don't go anywhere no matter if I look at the instruction booklet upside down or sideways. They just hang there and somehow the cooler works.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
Headline almost got me.

Ikea has a bad rap but I've used plenty of their stuff and it's much better than it's cost would indicate, which is really saying something nowadays.

Fine for dorm/college/first job out of college stuff or kids bedrooms.

One trick that I've found helps quite a bit is to put some wood glue wherever the furniture calls for dowels (just a dab on both ends). Increases the sturdiness of the furniture a lot, but measure twice cause once it's all together it's never coming apart again.
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It depends what it is. They have some decent stuff and they have some shit things.
 
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