Last night I was laying in bed with The Future Mrs Adventures. We were looking at new bedroom furniture on the World Wide Wasteroftime and the subject of Ikea came up.
I love Ikea with a passion. In my dim and distant past I was trained as an engineer (which is a bit like being trained as a Shaolin Monk, but without the fancy moves or natty orange trousers), so the way in which the Swedish outfit designs its furniture to be cheap to produce and easy to assemble by Joe Public with nothing more than an allen key and a 5 minute attention span just fascinates me. IMHO Genius is not too strong a word.
I found myself telling my lovely Other Half all about how they actually manufacture non-standard screws for their equipment to save money on materials, and how because of the huge volumes that they use, it is a worthwhile engineering exercise vs buying a standard screw... .
In bed.
Ladies, please form an orderly queue.
Sheesh! You know how to spoil a girl...
ReplyDeleteYou smooth talker you!
ReplyDeleteAh laydeez, please keep calm! FMA is lucky that I didn't explain how the reduction in material may have affected the the Ultimate Tensile Strength of the fixing (see Young's Modulus of Elasticity).
ReplyDeleteThat would have got her all of a quiver for sure ;-)
You think?
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