On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 12:15:47 PM UTC-5, -MIKE- wrote:

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I actually do quite a bit of RTA furniture assembly for people in my area.
FWIW, I'm very pleased when I find out it will be an IKEA product I'm
going to assemble because their quality is significantly higher than
other RTA furniture.


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You would love putting together some of the RTA pieces that I have in my
house. This 9' x 6' x 3' armoire is RTA:

http://s440.photobucket.com/user/Der...d847e.jpg.html

This is one on the connectors that holds the top on (right hand image). You
use any type of round pointed object to turn a barrel nut to draw the
sections together.

http://s440.photobucket.com/user/Der...5b0d6.jpg.html

The unit knocks down to 10(?) pieces not including the shelves. The biggest
single pieces are the top and the base. Roughly 9 x 3 x 6". The rest are all
about the size of one of the doors.

I have a 6' wide glass front book case, a dining room hutch, a curved glass
china cabinet and a few other pieces from the same manufacturer. They were
made by a German firm (whose name escapes me right now) back in the early
1900's.