Spent 3 hours trying to fix my monitor arm because of a stupid plastic clip

Picked up a used monitor arm off Facebook Marketplace for $20. Seemed fine at first but the tilt kept slipping. Took me 3 hours to realize there was a tiny plastic locking clip I hadn't pushed in all the way. I had already taken the whole thing apart twice and was ready to throw it out the window. Has anyone else fought with a simple setup part way longer than you'd like to admit?

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henry_webb683d ago

Man, I've been there more times than I care to count. Spent two hours last month wrestling with a simple shelf bracket from IKEA before noticing the instructions had a tiny picture showing the screw needed to go in at a specific angle. Felt like a total fool. That frustration of taking something apart and putting it back together only to find out it was something that simple is just brutal. At least you figured it out before it actually broke or got thrown out the window, right?

the_jason3d ago

That tiny picture thing always drives me crazy though - I actually prefer the text only instructions.