On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 9:39:07 AM UTC-10, wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:37:18 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >My old BBQ was starting show its age. The doors had broken years ago. It
> >had very uneven heat. When I cleaned it out the other day I noted that
> >two of the three burners were cracked and the other had a lot of holes
> >plugged with metal that was flaking from the inside. The grills were
> >flaking badly. Time for a new one. I went out yesterday and bought a
> >nice Weber propane grill.
> >
> >Several people seemed surprised that I was going to assemble it myself
> >rather than have the store do it. When I got home, unloaded the box and
> >started unpacking it I began to think that would have been a good idea.
> >Holy cow there were a lot of parts, and they were packed for saving
> >space, not in any sort of order of assembly.
> >
> >It took more than two hours. Once I got the base finished there were few
> >parts of confuse things and the instruction manual was starting to make
> >sense. I have to give Weber credit for making a product with parts
> >that fit together the way they are supposed to. Once I figured out
> >which part went where and the order to do them they lined up perfectly.
> >
> >When it was all done I sparked her up for the smoke test. There was a
> >nice, even blue flame all the way along all three burners. I am looking
> >forward to cooking on this baby.
> >
> Try putting an elliptical together or a treadmill. Now those things
> are a pain in the ass. They must have been like 30 bolts and they are
> all different sizes, but its not like one 2 inches and the others were
> 4 inches. I mean like 4 bolts would be 4 inches 4 others would be 4
> 1/4 inches then 4 others would be 4 1/2 inches and the instructions
> did not specify sizes, it came shrink wrapped on a piece of cardboard
> that was lettered. When you took the shrink wrap off all the bolts
> just got mixed up. That was a pain in the ass!!
>
> --
>
> ____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

Some people enjoy putting stuff together. It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle except you get something useful when you're finished.