e57
Senior Member
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Yesterday - I went to go put up a fixture, and fish to a new one, and put up another fixture there. The night before the client showed me one of the fixtures which was unassembled.... The fixture 60 pieces of popsicle stick like wood with five legs, and a few hundred plastic pop rivets that would make an orb. See attached... The instructions said it would take "40-60 minutes" to assemble...
I told the client - "I'm not sure if you want to pay my rate to assemble it.... (And since she called to only have one fixture installed at an existing location - but now wanted another in a different location - and it was late...) Maybe you can save some money by assembling it for me..."
Next day on a Saturday I figured I show up do a little fishing to a new location and put up two fixtures - be out of there in a few hours... I get there, and the fixture is unassembled.....
So now I'm stuck putting it together... I'm a guy with good spacial ability - but this was silly vague instructions and very fragile....
I start out putting it together as the instructions say, make 12 assemblies, of 5 pieces, then it lays out how 3 of these go together... Then it says "It will become self-evident how the rest of the pieces fit together..." Total crapolola... It goes together very nicely the wrong way - or should I say ways... I tried them all - before getting to the most seemingly unlikely way that worked - 3 hours later!
I told the client - "I'm not sure if you want to pay my rate to assemble it.... (And since she called to only have one fixture installed at an existing location - but now wanted another in a different location - and it was late...) Maybe you can save some money by assembling it for me..."
Next day on a Saturday I figured I show up do a little fishing to a new location and put up two fixtures - be out of there in a few hours... I get there, and the fixture is unassembled.....
So now I'm stuck putting it together... I'm a guy with good spacial ability - but this was silly vague instructions and very fragile....
I start out putting it together as the instructions say, make 12 assemblies, of 5 pieces, then it lays out how 3 of these go together... Then it says "It will become self-evident how the rest of the pieces fit together..." Total crapolola... It goes together very nicely the wrong way - or should I say ways... I tried them all - before getting to the most seemingly unlikely way that worked - 3 hours later!