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12-24-2014 02:24 PM #3
Well, I can't match that, but I had a text from a nephew - his wife bought him a new ping pong table for Christmas, and they had borrowed a truck to get it home. One of those units that fold up to store against the wall, with a nice metal frame & locking casters, the beast weighed almost 400# in the box! Well, long story short the store just sells the tables in the box and assembly is up to the buyer. They had hired some jack-leg "handyman" to put it together, and after five hours last night he'd ripped one mounting plate out of the table top, and then told them that one of four hinges was assembled wrong from the factory and left. My first advice, thinking that the store had delivered it and sent their guys to put it together was "Call them, tell them that this one's jacked up by their guy, and that you want a new one along with someone who can read and follow written instructions! Well, that almost had the wife in tears, and after they made it clear that they had brought in their own "handyman" to put it together we took another tack. Indeed one of the hinge units was assembled backwards, but it was a simple matter of drilling out a rivet, flipping the mounting bracket and replacing the rivet with a 1/4x20 bolt and lock nut. The little #8 screws holding the bracket had pulled out of the MDF table top, so four #10's filled the bill, and tightened up nicely. After tightening up all of the fasteners the guy had left finger tight, installing the "new" hinge and four "stop" screws that he had neglected to install we folded it up smooth as silk, and then dropped it back flat with no issues. All in it was $0.94 for a bolt, metal lock nut and four hex head sheet metal screws, and one happy couple for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day! A win-win!!Roger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.





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