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oh god... this sort of shit always triggers something in me and i want to call up the manufacturer and shout at them for a bit. I've seen products using hardware plain wrong so many times... things that are taught in a first semester mechanical engineering degree or just require a minimum of common sense (your example is perfect actually). ugh.When you buy something that mounts on the wall (a battery holder) and the screws with it are countersunk when the thing you’re putting them through very much isn’t countersunk.
Then after drilling the holes in the wall you find that the wall plugs provided are junk and the screws provided don’t bite into them at all.
It’s a nice battery holder now I’ve screwed it onto the wall with my own wall plugs and longer button head screws…
Rule number one: the wall plugs in the package go straight in the bin. These ones actually made me laugh:When you buy something that mounts on the wall (a battery holder) and the screws with it are countersunk when the thing you’re putting them through very much isn’t countersunk.
Then after drilling the holes in the wall you find that the wall plugs provided are junk and the screws provided don’t bite into them at all.
It’s a nice battery holder now I’ve screwed it onto the wall with my own wall plugs and longer button head screws…
That is the most useless-looking anchor I've ever seen. European anchors tend to be better than the ones I see around here (at least, the ones I saw for sale in European hardware stores, and like what ships with things like Elfa closet hardware).Rule number one: the wall plugs in the package go straight in the bin. These ones actually made me laugh:
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When you buy something that mounts on the wall (a battery holder) and the screws with it are countersunk when the thing you’re putting them through very much isn’t countersunk.
Then after drilling the holes in the wall you find that the wall plugs provided are junk and the screws provided don’t bite into them at all.
It’s a nice battery holder now I’ve screwed it onto the wall with my own wall plugs and longer button head screws…
The one in the picture was made of cheap Chinesium and came from Amazon. The ones that I actually used were either TOX or Fischer from the hardware store, I don’t remember.That is the most useless-looking anchor I've ever seen. European anchors tend to be better than the ones I see around here
I had to google what this was. I never saw one in person. So far, I only saw those:Rule number one: the wall plugs in the package go straight in the bin. These ones actually made me laugh:
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These are the exact ones that came with this battery holder, I thought they would be fine but they were junk for my use and the provided screws were too short. The other screws I had were too narrow to get a grip in the plugs. I bought a load of Rawl branded plugs a while back (Rawlplug is the Hoover of wall plugs over here) and they work fine with pretty much any screws you can throw at them.I had to google what this was. I never saw one in person. So far, I only saw those:
I’m terrible at mounting things to the wall. also in my defense the walls in my house are weird some are extremely durable and nearly impenetrable while other go super smoothly. But even I do the whole ‘I’ll save these crappy wallmounts/screws because you never know’. So now I have a toolbox full of them. Same goes with furniture, nowadays they give you an extra screw of each type and I just keep holding on to those for some reason
Gladly accepted, thanks.There’s a place at my table for you and a glass for your beverage of choice. Proverbially for the time being and literally when Germany isn’t full of plague rats anymore.
That shape is one of the common and sensible ones, however I still throw those away and use my own. It’s because the plastic is usually of poor quality and they get bent, twisted and/or squashed long before they’re in the hole.I had to google what this was. I never saw one in person. So far, I only saw those:
A house falling down is an opportunity, not an inconvenience! Again you are thinking to small my Belgian friend!While that is true, sometimes we want to replace the picture with something else, and we need the strength of a 1000 men to remove it from the wall which is a hassle. Or you could just remove the wall completely, but then my house falls down
has joined the chat.I'm not beyond destroying the wall or the object, hammers are fun.
The too-small flush actuation buttons on my dual-flush toilets. The buttons are so small and so oddly shaped that it's quite easy to either accidentally catch the edge of the "small flush" button when you're trying to "big flush" so that you end up having to flush twice, or it's too easy to catch your fingernail on an edge when you're pushing the button down. Last time my nail was just a tiny bit longer than normal, caught the fixed-in-place flange edge, and it sort of folded my fingernail back a little, pulling away from the nail bed (if that's the right term for the area under the nail). Hurt like a sonofabitch.
It wouldn't be so bad for the buttons to be small if they stood proud of the surface. It's only an issue because you are pushing a flush (no pun intended) button down into a recess. You know how easy it is to use an arcade button, right? Now imagine if the button was even with the surface, and you had to push the button down into a hole. It'd be much more awkward, right?
Next toilet is for sure going to be one with larger flush buttons. I want to be able to flush with gloves on. Not because I want to, but because that's how easy they should be to use. i should be able to flush blind-folded, with my non-dominant hand all oiled-up.