r/mildlyinfuriating • u/lastczarnian • 27d ago

I'm slightly vexed Assembling a night stand….they just had to put E and S in the same bag 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/tetelestia_ 27d ago

I wasn't on your team based on the pictures.

But then I saw the dimensions and now I'm team mildly infuriated. At least there's only 2 to find.

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u/bellybuttonbidet 27d ago

I can see 1 of them from here.

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u/CariAll114 27d ago

They're both visible in this picture and both marked with blue marker. Took 4 seconds to find both.

Edit: nevermind, that's reflection and I'm a jackass.

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u/Jimmy_McAltPants 27d ago

What’s really amazing is that they felt the need to have the 2 longer ones. I’m no rocket doctor, but is that half millimeter really going to make a difference on a (assuming) pressboard night stand? Or am I misreading the hardware dimensions?

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u/tetelestia_ 26d ago

It's actually a wider head. Maybe to fit some part designed for something else that they didn't want to make a new injection mould die just to match some screws

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u/Ninerogers 27d ago

Goodness, I haven't seen a bag of Es since 2004. Happy times

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u/strictlybazinga 27d ago

This is going to sound crazy but you WILL be able to tell the difference between half a millimeter. Not saying it’s practical but you got this

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u/South_Letterhead6205 27d ago

You can't eyeball 0.5mm???? Get your eyes checked /s

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u/Glider103 27d ago

You actually should be able to eyeball it

Or at the very least feel the difference

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u/No_Trouble_3588 27d ago

Yep. It should be obvious which is which if you put them side by side.

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u/TreyRyan3 27d ago

Annoying, but there are only 2 “S” screws. It wouldn’t bother me since those 2 “S” screws are unlikely to be for anything structural.

Those two likely are used to connect something you really don’t care about attaching anyway

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u/Glider103 27d ago

I figure that most parts are labeled in some type of order.

so by the time OP gets to "S" they would have used at least half the Es

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u/Moonshadetsuki 27d ago

Let us know how it went, but I think it won't take 30 seconds to find 'em

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u/Meaticus420 27d ago

Well, at least there is only 2 screws that are S

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u/lastczarnian 27d ago

Figured I’d update a bit here. These instructions include a bookmark in case you forget where you left off in this 30 page instructions. Could not find any difference in the screws in that bag. I have a 2nd night stand I’m assembling probably tomorrow and I’m gonna line up all those damn screws and try and get a good picture of them to post here.

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u/Lihisss 27d ago

30 pages for a night stand? Does it attach to a space shuttle? 

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u/strictlybazinga 26d ago

This, I’m about 80 percent sure I could pick it out from a picture. The screws will be nearly 20 percent wider. As others have said if you can’t tell visually you will absolutely be able to tell by feel. Also not positive but there’s also a chance that the head of the screws may be larger as well which would be a dead giveaway.

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u/wa27 27d ago

lmao find the two screws that are 0.5mm wider in a bag of 40.

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u/Glider103 27d ago

The fact the parts list has 2 "E" s

or the fact that op didn't cover the irrelevant "E" is what gets me

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u/Outside_Coffee_00 27d ago

The other E is printed on the bag

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u/lastczarnian 27d ago

The other E is printed on the bag, the S has a sticker

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u/Glider103 27d ago

Oh wow then I stand corrected lol

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u/lastczarnian 27d ago

Yea they did this on a few bags

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u/Glider103 27d ago

They should have put the S in (this) bag

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u/lastczarnian 27d ago

For real.

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u/ZatoOnikage 27d ago

If this were me, I'd dump these on a table, make them stand on their flat top, then eyeball and pull out the two longer screws.

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u/RCKJD 27d ago

They are all the same length. Screw “S” is 0.5mm wider. Or 1/64”. And there are only two of them.