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A Little Off the Top
I was very good yesterday morning and didn't start assembling furniture. Instead I got out my ruler, pencil, and straight edge and marked off where to trim the cabinets. I did the actual cutting down this morning and it went like a dream. Now the only problem is finding someone sufficiently muscular to help me maneuver them up on top of the other cabinets. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
claning was over for apprentice day, but didn't feel up to the heavy lifting. Now, I said I was good yesterday morning, but when I got back from the Poachers' Feast, it was getting dark, so I couldn't do carpentry out on the deck, now could I? So no point in wasting them time when I could be assembling furniture....
The buffet was completed before I went to bed Saturday. I started work on the table this morning after finishing the carpentry, but found some engineering problems with one of the main screw types they were using. Specifically, if you're going to supply a wood screw that doesn't fit easily through the hole in the hinge, this means that the screw is going to wobble as you screw it in, as well as getting its edges mangled. And if the hardness of the metal you make the screws out of is not sufficiently high with respect to the added friction of having to screw them through the hinge hole, then what you end up with is a mangled screw head. I now have two screws that, instead of a phillips head top, have a smooth cone-shaped dent in the top. (One courtesy of the screwdriver head of my drill, but one done entirely by muscle power.) I've occasionally had problems with screw/hardware issues in IKEA products before, but nothing quite this bad. So I'm going to take samples of the hardware over to their help desk and see if we can't get something more functional going.
Oh, and a bit Too Much Excitement while I was trying to get to sleep Saturday night. A series of gunshots from what sounded like a few blocks over. I called 911 to give what little description I could but they already had someone looking into it. The joys of Oakland.
claning was over for apprentice day, but didn't feel up to the heavy lifting. Now, I said I was good yesterday morning, but when I got back from the Poachers' Feast, it was getting dark, so I couldn't do carpentry out on the deck, now could I? So no point in wasting them time when I could be assembling furniture....The buffet was completed before I went to bed Saturday. I started work on the table this morning after finishing the carpentry, but found some engineering problems with one of the main screw types they were using. Specifically, if you're going to supply a wood screw that doesn't fit easily through the hole in the hinge, this means that the screw is going to wobble as you screw it in, as well as getting its edges mangled. And if the hardness of the metal you make the screws out of is not sufficiently high with respect to the added friction of having to screw them through the hinge hole, then what you end up with is a mangled screw head. I now have two screws that, instead of a phillips head top, have a smooth cone-shaped dent in the top. (One courtesy of the screwdriver head of my drill, but one done entirely by muscle power.) I've occasionally had problems with screw/hardware issues in IKEA products before, but nothing quite this bad. So I'm going to take samples of the hardware over to their help desk and see if we can't get something more functional going.
Oh, and a bit Too Much Excitement while I was trying to get to sleep Saturday night. A series of gunshots from what sounded like a few blocks over. I called 911 to give what little description I could but they already had someone looking into it. The joys of Oakland.