TV Stand From Japan, Also From Hell

I received my huge and perfectly formed, 32 inches of HDTV love muscle today. With stand and DVD player that plays anything (even .avi files from a CD etc).

The stand...is where my happiness falls into a pit of spikey flatpack hell. Well not flatpack hell. But assembly required purgatory. Will I make it through to HDTV heaven?

The instructions are in 'Engrish'. Apparently the contents include 'big road', 'small road', 'aluminum round' and 'worms'.

In English they are known as big rod, small rod, washers and screws. But I swear the washers are the wrong size. They're all either too big or too small and they've given me about 50 of them. So I don't know how I will overcome this fiery beast.

The worst thing is I have the ~20 parts of the TV stand strewn around my room, mainly on my bed so I can't sleep til I put it together! Not even turned the TV on yet :redface:.

Pity me!

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Its when you've put it all together and there are a couple of bits left over you need to worry!! Good luck! x
 
This is why I no longer buy furniture from Ikea. I find their instructions to be the worst! I have put together a number of pieces from the Sauder company and have had great success. The instructions are printed in plain, easy to understand English, the pictures are in proper sequence, and they always have all necessary parts in the box.
 
I was going to type something technically helpful and informative here, but got distracted by Tickled Pink's avatar pic :biggrin1:
 
Enjoy your new toy. I've put together many pieces from Sauder. Sometimes it's best to put in some extra money and get something already made.
 
Still waiting. TV needs to be connected to the roof aerial too. And I have an Xbox 360 but no games to play on. I ordered Call of Duty 4 from America last week...its taking ages!

The stand is still in bits
 
That's funny dude. I bet you can do it. Get the welder to make the parts they left out. I've updated my original particle board corner computer desk a few times. Otherwise it would have busted up and be in the trash by now.
 

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