Coaster Coat Rack

Coaster Coat Rack

Coaster Coat Rack

The coat rack has all of the basics needed to be really good -- except clear, useful directions. Its main pieces are metal and are strong. Mine arrived with enough parts, and many of those parts, especially the three sections of the main pole, fit together easily. Certainly the final rack seems to be holding up to the weight of a number of winter coats. (I've tested it with a total of two heavy weather-beaters and four lighter jackets hung around its branches. I bought the clothes rack because my town house's downstairs closet gets very musty, someone having decided it didn't need a vent or air conditioning outlet.)

Here is the problem. The directions consist of a single page giving a schematic of the coat rack. The schematic is okay, although it is incorrect in one detail. The rack includes many short screws and three slightly longer ones. The schematic shows that the three longer screws fit into the top of each of legs (which are in turn made of two sections, the middle one being fastened to the main pole).

Coaster Coat Rack

FOR ME, AT LEAST, EACH LEG WAS BEST ASSEMBLED BY FASTENING THE UPPER HALF TO THE MAIN POLE WITH ONE OF THE SLIGHTLY LONGER SCREWS.

In working on the legs, it was useful to allow a little looseness in the screws, since the completed legs become a little springy when one tries to fasten the upper end to the hoop.

The top part of the rack went together easily. One needs simply to be careful to pop the rounded plastic plugs into the correct tubes, as shows on the schematic. Same for the bottom; otherwise the rack will rock. 

Coaster Coat Rack