Pesky Swedes

The Medway Handyman · 2006-04-13T18:31:40+00:00

Hi AllSpent today assembling some IKEA beds. Last thing was to assemble the under bed storage drawers. Held together with those cam lock fittings.Suddenly realised that instead of 16 cam lock fittings all the same I had 11 that fitted the drawers and 5 that didn't - they were around 1mm too big in diameter.Checked the instructions ( it was an emergency). There were supposed to be 24 'large' and 16 'small'. The cam dowels were all the same.Took me 15 mins to hunt down the 5 'small' cam locks in the base units, remove them & replace with 'large' ones.What is the point of using two sizes of cam locks and one size of cam dowel? An extra 1mm diameter isn't going to add any strength, it just confuses people. Surely more efficient to use 40 the same?I reckon its a deliberate ploy to get back at us over some imagined slight involving the Eurovision Song Contest myself.Mutter, mutter...........