We are getting through the last of the boxes and getting the contents put into places they belong.
We got to the china cabinet after moving the boxes from in front of it and putting them away. There are two glass shelves that go into it. OK, shouldn’t be a problem. I grabbed the first one and open the three doors on the cabinet. The shelf is as long as the cabinet is wide. I try sliding it in from one of the end doors but the shelf won’t fit. I try from the other end, but it doesn’t work either. Figured that’d be the case but I wanted to try all possibilities. I can’t get it to fit through the center door either. The whole exercise is rather frustrating.
I did a quick search on YouTube to see if I could glean anything from them on putting the glass shelves back in place. Not terribly helpful beyond saying to remove the doors from their hinges. I didn’t want to go that route.
I sat pondering it for a few moments. I had a flash of insight on how to get the shelves in. I used the center doors and slid the first shelf in and up toward the top back corner. I had about a quarter of an inch on the bottom corner of the shelf to get it into the cabinet. I wrangled it, maneuvering the shelf until the bottom corner went in. The it was a matter of wriggling it around until I could get it going lengthwise inside the cabinet. Then it would be a simple matter of lifting it in place and setting it on the pegs to hold the shelf in place. Rather than do that I put the second shelf in the cabinet first, since having the first shelf in place would have blocked it going in.
Once the second shelf was in it got jammed as I was trying to get it to fit lengthwise. The top corner was pressing against the glass on the side of the cabinet, while the bottom corner got caught in the groove for the glass pane on the other side of the cabinet. Again, after a lot of wiggling I got it in place.
With both pieces of glass in place I lifted them up and on to the pegs for them to rest on.
< Tim Allen simian grunting >
All of this let us unbox a bunch of other boxes of china and put them all away in the cabinet. That cleared up a lot of floor space.
We next came across a big box of office supplies. It was pretty heavy and upon opening it I found out why. There was a UPS battery backup inside. These things are heavy. I lifted it out of the box and found it was sitting on something.
“I found the printer!” I told the wife.
“Good!” she replied.
As I lifted it out of the box it sounded like something was rattling around inside it. That’s not good.
I set the printer down and lifted the lid. The glass pane that is used if you are scanning a document in to digitize it was shattered. Whoever packed the box really should have put those two items in the box in reverse order. It’s my own fault for not getting it boxed before I left to bring the dogs to the new house. In my defense I got as much as I could packed before leaving but just couldn’t do it all.
I’m not sure if it will still work as a printer. I should think it would unless some pieces of the glass fell down among the innards of the case and jam something up. Also, I don’t know how much it might cost to repair to get the pane of glass replaced. It may be less expensive to just get a new printer.
The house is almost livable at this point, my Hordeling. We’re getting there.
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