That one drawer pull that fought me for two whole days

I was installing a set of 12 matching pulls on a kitchen island, simple job, right? The eleventh one just would not line up with the template holes, no matter how I tweaked it. I spent maybe 6 hours total over two days trying to fix it, checking my measurements, even recutting the drawer front once. Turns out the pull itself was bent from the factory, a flaw you couldn't see until it was mounted. I only found it by holding a straightedge across it. Has anyone else had a single tiny hardware defect eat up a ridiculous amount of time?

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eva_moore22d ago

Ugh, that's the worst! I had a cabinet door hinge that was milled wrong. I kept shimming and adjusting the door for an hour before I compared it to a spare hinge from the box. The mounting plate was just a degree off. Swapped it and it clicked right in.

felixm2921d ago

Yeah, I've definitely lost hours to something that simple.

jake74721d ago

Man, "a degree off" is the kind of tiny flaw that feels like the universe is personally messing with you. You go through all the logical steps, sure you're the problem, only to find out the part itself was built wrong. It's like the hardware version of a gaslighting ex.

the_claire1d ago

Remember that time my phone charger only worked at a perfect 90 degree angle...