E**N
Assembly is *excruciatingly*, injury-inducingly "challenging".
Rating is currently based on assembly alone. The caption in the elastic rope installation image above claims the assembly is "very challenging." That is a *vast* understatement. The amount of force required to pull and lock the elastic ropes onto the plastic spheres is extreme (as you might imagine, stringing a jumping surface that can withstand a 300lb person). Three ropes into it, using our hands on the intallation tool as shown, my husband had already internally bruised one of his hands and sliced a finger on the other. That's not even mentioning the fact that nothing holds the circular frame together (no screws, etc) except the assembly of the elastic ropes... so while you are exerting your entire strength of this assembly tool and worrying your fingers are going to slip and turn into hamburger, the circular frame pops apart.The only way to make this work is to (a) begin by fixing every 5th unfolded elastic rope to the legs joints of the frame with the legs, thereby getting the jumping surface into place and securing the circular frame.Then (b) you must transfer the force of pulling the elastic rope taut from your hand to your leg, which is much stronger. I attached a nylon rope to the bottom of the installation tool with a welded metal ring and looped the other end around my foot (with a shoe on, of course... the width of my foot could not withstand this amount of crushing force). I then (c) stood the circular frame vertically on end and had my husband hold it steady. Then (d) I hooked the elastic rope with the two small metal hooks of the tool and stepped down with my foot on the looped end of the nylon rope to check the length of the nylon rope. If the elastic did not pull up and over the frame and all the way down past the locking sphere, the nylon rope had to be shortened (I finger crocheted it shorter several times through trial and error). Then (e) when the nylon rope was at the proper length, I stepped down on the loop of the nylon rope, pulling the elastic rope down toward the sphere, and I'd quickly force the elastic over the sphere. Then I (f) released the tool from the taut elastic without bumping it and launching the anything at my face with the force of 150lbs. Instant ER visit... avoid that. Then (g) I continued fastening the elastics around the frame criss-crossing the frame doing opposing locations one after the other so that the force is applied eveningly across the jumping surface. Then, (h) I unscrewed the legs, removed the final 6 elastics from the leg joints and installed them too. Finally, (i) I screwed on the legs.I cannot overstate how difficult this was. Whoever designed this thoroughly overestimated the arm strength of the average human. I would absolutely never recommend this to others.
A**R
REALLY hard to setup due to vague instructions.
When I bought this item I thought expert assembly wasn't gonna be nessuary...boy was I wrong. The instructions is VERY vague and the pictures are hard to see due to it being in black and white. The shipment came with 4 walshers and a tool none of this was even explained on the instructions. If you plan on ordering this expert assembly WILL be needed.
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