Assembly instructions from hell

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Filed under: random — by adafruit, posted October 12, 2010 at 8:09 pm


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13 Comments

  1. Wow… those instructions are almost as bad as the ones from Ikea.

    Comment by Adam — October 12, 2010 @ 8:59 pm

  2. Lamentably, this is a good representation of how calculus appears to many people.

    Comment by johngineer — October 12, 2010 @ 10:30 pm

  3. Did they really mean to create so many optical illusions?

    Comment by Michael — October 12, 2010 @ 11:01 pm

  4. The smaller diameter is in FEET while the longer one is in CM. That I can deal with. But I may have an issue getting exactly PI nuts.

    Hurm… Pecan Pie is a Pie Nut… Nah. It’ll just make the assembly even more sticky.

    Comment by Paul — October 13, 2010 @ 10:06 am

  5. Gee, I wonder if that’s the one I drew in AutoCAD from a hand drawing back in 1989…glad to see this old joke is still around!

    Comment by Karen Mulholland — October 13, 2010 @ 10:34 am

  6. Surely LadyAda has seen this?

    http://www2.vmi.edu/Faculty/squirejc/Research/IC_Datasheets/digital_cmos/Write%20Only%20Memory.pdf

    Comment by MaggieL — October 13, 2010 @ 10:44 am

  7. That’s awesome.

    Comment by doug — October 13, 2010 @ 12:57 pm

  8. WOW, I was a Manufacturing Engineer and used to do assembly drawings similar to this but, this one is actually PAINFUL to look at!!

    Comment by Steven S. — October 13, 2010 @ 1:11 pm

  9. That’s not *exactly* PI nuts, though.

    Comment by Magnus — October 14, 2010 @ 4:13 am

  10. *Homer voice* Mmmmmm, pi nuts.

    Comment by Frolicols — October 14, 2010 @ 12:29 pm

  11. If you’re an engineer, depending on tolerances, pi can be approximated to 3. (I also love the resistor "captcha")

    Comment by Adam — October 16, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

  12. This is obviously a new tool in the “war on drugs”: if you repeatedly switch your focus from the bottom left to top right of the “rectabular excrusion bracket”, the effect mimics cheap low-grade hallucinogens – try it, you’ll like it!

    Okay, maybe not O_o

    Just… tell me this is nothing to do with Mars missions, PLEASE!!!

    Comment by Miss C — October 17, 2010 @ 12:55 pm

  13. What? No torque specs? Use mile/oz

    Comment by sam — October 20, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

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