When was the last time you assembled something?

I assembled something today.I couldn't find a box to mail an item in so I,cut some styro foam to fit it,put some card board on both the underside & top & there you have it a home made styro foam box.

I wonder how long this will stay @ 100%? Hare Krishna!

I assembled a desk yesterday and it was pretty easy except the very last step...putting the little plastic plugs in to cover the extra shelving holes. Argh!

I've put together a lot of furniture (most everything in our house) and I usually find the instructions pretty easy, unless they've been translated from another language by someone who didn't know English very well. That can make it tricky!

I put a new fuel pump in Valle on Saturday. I assembled a group for wine advice yesterday. I removed (mostly) and replaced (slightly) an engine in Ronja yesterday.

I used to help my dad assemble all our new furniture. We haven't had any new stuff for years though...........

I assenbled something a few months ago. I like assembling things, I do it all the time when I go visit my Dad. At home, my mom helps me. I find instructions easy to follow.

We just moved into a house and all our stuff arrived from abroad. I was putting things together for a month.

Assembling things is fun!

Has anyone here ever assembled one of these?

Don't recall, really. I remeber a year and a half ago at scout camp I assembled a few things such as frames and towers out of poles and rope.

More than a year ago.

I have a friend who can make a computer from what looks like a spring, a piece of tinfoil and a clock, so it's pretty embarrassing to say that the last thing I assembled was a gerbil cage.

I helped my SO assemble something the other day...I held tools and gave her an extra hand where she only had two and the instructions seemed to want her to grow a couple more

I "assembled" a banana, kiwi, and strawberry salad this evening, if that counts.

maybe a couple of months ago...... not really sure. i like to assemble things though!

That's COOL!

I assembled a computer about 2 months ago and one a month before that and another one a month before that.
I tried to assemble my watch, but it failed miserably and I had to throw it away.

So, how is your new home?

So...ahh...how did you get out?

It's nice. Very far away from my parents, very near the country. And cows.

Isn't it though? I want one. I've never assembled one, but it might be fun.

I dug a hole.

All the time I fabricate things. I cant afford things that require assembly. My kitchen drawer has little tidbits that can be carved, glued, or melted to new purposes. I once had a bench with many bins organized by material and shape like 'rubber - flat', 'metal w/ exterior threads', 'metal - bracketed', etc. Working on ancient exotic cars often meant recreating parts from scratch.

I named my SAAB 'Maryesque'. I talk to her like the kittens: 'Yea, we got you some new headlamps'.

I love stellated forms and truncated-icosododecahedrons and what not. What you have there is very curious in light of the meridian angles & junctures. We inscribe our globes with two dimensional geometry and wonder why the magnetosphere does not comply.

...and then you crawled it?

*Tossing a buckyball to K_R* Here, catch!

No, I really didn't dig a hole. I'm still in there. Someone fixed the picture to make it look empty, but there I sit, on my laptop *waving*

You must be very very small.
I used a magnifying glass and...
BTW: Who makes those laptops?

nano-nano

Probably lots of things that escape me right now, but seeing as how I'm sitting at it, I thought of my desk. When I was a Building Superintendent I used to assemble office furniture all the time. I found it was a good way to win over new tenants. It wasn't really my job, but they would always ask to borrow tools, and I would just stick around and help out. Following the instructions is VERY IMPORTANT. I saw a guy try to assemble something, and almost immediately break it, by thinking he could assemble it without instructions. Such a "guy" thing to do. I won't even operate a chainsaw without reading the instructions first.

http://www.gardendome.com/sculpture_domes.html

There it is where someone is standing next to it.

Same here. You never know when you might actually learn something new in the 10 pages of SAFETY WARNINGS.

They say regular n-gons can only exist for a certain number of sides, but think about it; if you wanted to subsect a 2D circle into any number of equidistant rays you could. Now, in 3D, place (say 17) equidistant rays (you could expand conical rays until the circles on the sphere surface had equal intersections). Now simply connect lines between all the ray ends. Voila, a regular n-gon of any n (4 or above).
By using multi-dimensional mechanical tools (like an orery almost) one can exactly (as one bisects a line with two arc intersections) instead of iterative estimations n-sect any form; to 2-sect a line you need a 2D compass.. To 3-sect a circle you need a 3D compass (scoop).. about 22 dimensions can be representing mechanically by using coordinate placement, time, motion, color, etc. I read once you can't 7-sect a circle without estimation or reference and had to prove otherwise.

You're so cute when you talk geometry.

Oh thank you. Mortissa, speak to me in geometry. Oui mon cherie, bander mes yeux et diviser en deux mes'arcs avec ton diviseur.

Do you happen to know how to make a fountain out of common household objects?

Vous savez faire que vous. Vous venez de vouloir être bandé les yeux à.

I hope that made sense.

Sense? barely. especially that latter part.
Fountains, from household objects.. hmm..
Cat powered archimedes screw. Bucket ferris wheel. Innertube bellows. Black painted tank that expands air at day and sucks water at night. Steam powered water pressure.
I have no idea what's laying around your house, but unless you want a clunky sculpture, you're better off buying a pump.

I didn't think it would make sense. I used an automatic translator. It's sometimes funny when you translate things out of English, and then back.

I was just curious if there was a fun way to make a fountain without a pump.

Turn on the faucet!

Oh I crack me up.

and I can strategically place a spoon underneath it

There ya go!

Just rebuilt a garbage disposal today. I'm house sitting. the inside of that disposer was davy's locker - affixed all around with 1/3" of rust, but she's working again, with no replacement parts even.

And you still have all your fingers? Good job!

Tara should be happy when she returns in a month.

She's been away?

NY art residency. I'm watching her studio, cats, plants.. She put me on the insurance, suggests I finish my web contract in a week before school gets heavy, and talks like she expects me to live there. Red firework shows (literally) usually appear on our dates.
Not bad for someone who you 'aren't having a relationship' with.

About a year ago I assembled new shelves

Wow, are you going to move into her place?

I had to move her place here (4 cats and a fish), cause my workstation is here and I have urgent work and school and car stuff to do too. I'll have to visit to water her jungle, house clean, and tidy up all the mechanicals.
I was so pissed. I had the forethought to check her mail she didn't mention. Thought I'd have to be nice and pay a phone bill already arrived, but it's a month overdue in an amount that would have taken me 30 months to do myself. Got tickets cause I was up days straight without the few minutes to put on her front license plate.
I'm on replies only status here for the time being.

My 11 year old grandson, and I assembled the Gazelle, by Tony Little.

I had to re-assemble my computer after I took it apart to install a new (additional) hard drive. Talk about a pain in the ass! Although I must say, they are a lot easier to work on now than they were 20 years ago. Then it was difficult to do anything without getting cut. Also, my profanity has improved somewhat, which always helps any project.

LOL It helps me a lot, too!

It's the 'nature of the beast' that I'm always trying to reassemble something at the place I run/volunteer.