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
