What has happened to truth-in-advertising? "Some," to me means a minimal amount, an amount not requiring a sweat to break out, an amount to be accomplished in a minimum of time. Woe is me!
I am not a carpenter, a sheet metal worker, nor an iron worker. I know a flat blade from a Phillips screwdriver, a tack hammer from a claw hammer, and needle-nosed pliers from whatever they call the other kind! I can operate a reciprocating drill (I think you can make them back up) and I know the difference between a left-handed and a right-handed monkey wrench!
I can read fairly well; I can interpret pictures with the best of them ; I can count well beyond 100. Then why, oh why, do I have so much trouble assembling things?
Take the darling little French Provincial table/cabinet I assembled some time ago. The three sides and the glass-fronted door simply slipped into slots in the base. Ah. Easier said than done. All four sections had to be held firmly in place as the top was lowered to secure them. Only an octopus has enough arms to do that. You start all over when one side slips a fraction.
I've managed to assemble assorted carpet cleaners, a computer desk from KMart, a nice Weber grill, and a solar-powered water fountain but the outdoor fireplace proved my undoing.
This nifty thing didn't even want to come out of the box! Overcoming that hurdle with brute force, I laid the pieces out on the floor and checked that I had all required parts. Yep. A few quick bolt and wing nut assemblies to install and the job would be finished.
Not all bolts are the same length! When I'd get to something that required a longer bolt, I was forced to take apart what was finished, retrieve a long bolt, redo what I'd undone, and carry on.
Hours later, I was down to the last two bolt and wing nuts! The holes between two parts didn't match up exactly. I solved that problem, you betcha! Bit of drilling through steel sure did the trick!
The moral of my story? Don't believe anything you read. Pay someone to assemble what you want. And don't go shopping online.