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08 July 2017
Weak link is the USB
1 of 1 found this helpful I like this cooler better than most as it is almost silent and the blue light lets you know it's on. The review questions are sort of limiting, but I would say it's not a bad purchase, but why can't they make the USB more bombproof? That is ALWAYS the weak link on these things in my experience and this one is no exception. Have to wiggle it, bend it, twist it, to get it to come on and the slightest movement, it's off again. Very frustrating. They just always seem to get a short and no wonder, the wire they use is so thin and fragile it breaks if you surf the web too fast. I always remove by the plug and very careful yet already broke.
10 September 2016
Pretty bench, good for yard art. Actual sitting, not so much.
Ok, I know I "recommend" the product, but also say it isn't of good quality. Both are true. For the price - and that is what my review hinges on - this is a decent product primarily for eye candy in a garden or patio that will see occasional use only, from people who know it really is actually a piece of junk and use it accordingly. But as an actual park bench, it most definitely is NOT. This would not last a week in any city park that I know of.
The seller is great, super fast shipping and low prices. But this stuff made in China is just poor quality, all the way around. The ONLY redeeming factor is the low price. I imagine they mass produce tens of thousands of these every year. So how is it the holes won't line up? They actually had the foresight to make a slot hole for the bottom of the back for any slight misalignment...the only problem was, even at the maximum extreme of what they allowed was not enough for both the top and bottom bolt to go through. I had to drill out the top hole in the cast iron on one side and do some serious persuading on the other side in order to get the back to go on. Dumb.
The first thing you should do after unpacking (Do NOT unpack in the house - even with extreme care you will unleash thousands of statically charged bits of styrofoam packing. Geez, how i wish they would outlaw this stuff.), is open the bag of hardware, carefully place all the hardware in the palm of your hand, hold you hand over an appropriate garbage receptacle, and then slowly invert your hand. The hardware is junk.
Ok, maybe you can use the bolts and nuts (I did and only broke one using moderate torque) if you only plan to use as I do, basically yard art in our "grotto". But the wood screws, DO NOT USE under any circumstances. One sit down on your freshly assembled bench and they will likely snap off like seasoned twigs. That is if they don't snap using even the slightest torque during installation. I broke three before I wised up. One, I swear, snapped on the third twist of the screw driver before it even hit resistance.
Before you actually toss the screws, look around your shop or go to the hardware store with one of the supplied screws for depth comparison. They actually got that part right, but I wouldn't assume they do on every bench they ship. They give you seven screws. I would double that. You will see why when you assemble everything. The center strap which screws across the bottom of the wood slats is KEY to holding up the rated 330 pounds, as are the side braces. You can easily double the number of screws in both of these braces. Hold up the center strap where all the pre-drilled holes will line up with the slats and then mark an additional hole on the metal brace for each slat with a pencil. Drill the additional holes against a piece of scrap wood, not the actual slats.
On the side braces you can just add an extra screw near the hole they supply by drilling into the crease of the brace and slightly angle in the extra screw you bought or found in your shop. Use pan head screws of the same length (at least in my case) or slightly shorter than the ones supplied or you run the risk of the points popping thru the slats on the sitting side. Use washers if your screws are slightly too long. Using stainless steel screws and using twice as many will definitely help beef up the bench for actual sitting.
The problem with the bench is they depend on the wood slats for structural integrity. The entire frame of the bench should be all metal and all the parts bolted together should have been metal to metal with real bolts that you can actually torque down. The wood slats should have been primarily decorative and functional only to the degree that they provide a smooth surface for sitting. They depend on using crap hardware that can't be torqued to any degree and they use metal to wood for their structural strength.
Obviously the holes drilled in the (soft) wood don't give a solid feel of rigidity and this will only worsen with time as the holes begin to round out. Screws will strip with the slightest encouragement. If you actually use real hardware and give it a good torque, you will be better off, but again the wood tends to just get squeezed and crushed in the torque process and will again loosen over time. BTW, only ONE of the wood slats is designed to be the front slat. Don't use it in the middle or back by mistake. Just from a manufacturing point of view, that seems really dumb.
You could add some metal cross braces if you really want to use this bench, or expect to have teenagers horsing around on it. But for the additional cost and trouble you might as well just buy a quality, all metal frame bench. It won't hold up to anything but gentle use. My wife and I (of fairly normal proportions) sit down very gingerly and are careful to get up at the same time so as not to "scissor" the slats and make it completely unusable. The side to side give is really obvious.