I bought 2 lamps. The first lamp was put together no problem, but the second one was extremely infuriating! I spent almost 2 hours putting this together. The problem was once you connected all of the rods once you got to the base, there was not enough room for the rod to go through the base and attach the 3 washers and 1 nut. Well I I took off a nut from the bottom which didn’t serve any purpose to give me more rod space to go through the base. I also switched the washer because the one provided to go through the base was stripped. I hope this helps!