MIIIKO File Cabinet 3 Drawers on Wheels Under Desk

Don’t Be Afraid! Easy Assembly, Ingenious Engineering, High Quality
Why were people afraid of assembling this? Yes, it will may take 1.5 to 2 hours, but:1. You will find the instructions organized and quite clear2. A good quality screwdriver with reversible Phillips/Slotted shaft included3. A cheap, but adequate wrench for tightening the casters4. Undamaged parts superiorly packed and most are clearly labeled5. At the end of assembly, a locking cabinet probably worth twice its costI almost didn’t order this due to the fear reviews regarding assembly, but I am so grateful that I did. I thought that I would take a look at it and if it were too daunting, I would return it. Much, much to my surprise, assembly was 98% straight forward.Here are the minor less than 100% trivial points:1. The bottom and sides of the cabinet boxes are folding one-piece items. They don’t have letter identifiers on them, but are easily identified. The caveat is to pay attention to the tab slots that the end pieces will slide into. The folding piece must be folded so that the tab slots are on the inside of the drawer box as the end pieces tabs slide in from the inside. This is quality metal and can endure being folded the wrong way and then corrected back if needed. I did this on my first drawer.2. The design is quite ingenious using folding tabs to help join a number of the pieces. While the tabs are metal, they bend easily enough that I could usually do so with my thumb. If some were a little difficult or my thumb got sore, I used either the screwdriver shaft or its handle to pressure the tabs into place. The tabs were a great engineering idea to reduce the number of screws and to strongly join pieces that could not accommodate screws.3. I think a review complained that it was difficult to get the screwdriver aligned to put in some screws. I had no trouble with this. Yes, there is a little offset to deal with, but I used a longer screwdriver that made this easy, giving the handle more room to be twisted. I found all of the screw holes to be properly sized, contrary to a review that said they were all too small. They are intended to be small enough that the sheet metal screws will hold tight. These are sheet metal screws, not machine screws that are fine threaded. BTW, all screws were provided, along with a spare one for the support caster, and three extra of the general screws.4. There are only two very minor errors in the instructions for the 3-drawer cabinet. Step 3 has a typo where it says “Put the rear wall into the cabin with the floded (sic) side …” Of course, it should read “folded side”. Still, I found this ambiguous. The concave side faces outward, i.e. the screw holes are on the outside. Then, Step 12 says to make sure that the “six little tabs” … There are actually seven tabs.FWIW, I chose to put the locking casters in the front, not the back. That is where I can get to them easier.If you are half-way handy, don’t be afraid! This is a top-notch cabinet that only requires minimal skill and some time to assemble. Note that it says to use 2 people, but I don’t know why. It was easy to do alone. Maybe, lay out the letter ID’d pieces in alphabetical order to make following the instructions easier and faster. Enjoy!

Mostly easy to put together…mostly
When this is completed it looks modern and great! You can assemble this yourself by balancing it against something, in my case, the sofa. Some of the illustrations were hard to see, and some made no sense: for example, they show two views of the location of screws, with one view showing three sides installed, and the next following illustration showing two.The unit was well-packed with lots of styrofoam pieces and foam wrapping: there were no dents, nor scratches.The only really frustrating part was connecting the sides. They include a nice screwdriver that you can use for nearly everything. However, the distance from the installation of the screws at the bottoms of the sides, and the bottom drawer tracks can’t be done with the provided tool. The only tool we could find in our tool box was a pretty small ratchet wrench with a small socket, and a very small Phillips tip. They should provide a small allen key with the short end being a Phillips screw driver. You also may need a pliars to bend the metal tabs.The drawer assembly was easy, and the completed drawers snapped onto the track easily, and the drawers moved in and out easily. The cabinet locks and comes with two keys: you did need to be careful with the front panel installation to ensure that the locking bar was in the correct place.Knowing the small issues, I would purchase it again, it’s a good value.

Lousy Cabinet
This cabinet is terrible. It was neither particularly difficult or easy to put together. When it was assembled, the top drawer did not smoothly slide in so I switched the 2 drawers. That didn’t make any difference. When I put a few files (NOT a lot, and certainly not very heavy) in the bottom drawer, it tilted to one side. Of course to try to lock the cabinet, you need to push the bottom drawer so that it is more squared up with the cabinet. I believe I did a good job putting the cabinet together. It would have to be disassembled to try to fix this and I’m just not going to do that. A waste of money.

Good Quality File Cabinet
Very good quality file cabinet. Assembly was straight forward and easy to understand. Looks good and performs well. sliding drawer hardware works well and is quiet. Much better product than Expected, Would highly recommend for small business or home office.