This thing is a nightmare to put together. I recently had to join a gym, work out 7 days a week, and alter my diet in order to have the strength to lock the pieces together with whatever mechanism they invented to ruin the world. I tried to get my friends to help, and I almost lost friends. This will be the last time I will buy an item from this line. In the mean time, if I could get one of you who had success in assembling this to come by, I would pay you to do so.