Are you mechanically inclined?

Sorry you are having such a hard time. Is there someone you can ask for help?

I am mechanically inclined. Putting things together, or figuring how to fix something, I can do. I've even replaced all the parts inside a toilet tank by myself. My problem though is my size and strength. I am short so I have problems working with big things. And there are times I don't have the strength to unscrew something, pry something off, or hammer something.

I am completely mechanically disinclined. I have people I call except hanging a shower curtain. I do that myself and I got a nice new one recently. I stopped watching tv because it’s too complicated for me. There are 3 or 4 remotes for my tv in my suite. Forget that. I have an iPad that I can manoeuvre very well.

I have no real tech ability at all. However, I'm very mechanically inclined. If things come in boxes and need assembly, I'm your girl. Dh sucks at putting things together, but can think his way thru a project of his own design with no issues.

I can be. I no longer opt to do difficult things but I can if needed.

Yes, both DH and I are and we’ve done lots of DIY projects at our current house and we basically renovated every room in our previous house. We installed all the flooring, all the window treatments, did all the landscaping including block retaining walls and a paver patio, installed rock siding, enclosed the area under our porch and painted every room in our cabin when we had it rebuilt in 2019/2020. I can build IKEA furniture like nobody’s business. We just put together two sets of patio furniture last weekend. I think the hardest part was getting the cushion covers on, I couldn’t believe I broke a sweat doing that! 🥵 About the only thing I shy away from is messing with anything electrical.

I put together a baker's rack all by myself this week and was very proud! I don't think of myself as mechanically inclined, but I do like puzzles and problems and self-assembly often falls into that category.

Assemble yourself furniture is never easy, even for mechanically inclined people!

Yeah, I'm good at it. It comes pretty naturally to me, plus I have lots of experience, and I grew up around parents who were constantly making and assembling stuff. I'm not good at explaining step by step instructions to other people, because I can't understand what the question might be. In my defense, I recognize this about myself and avoid situations where my help will not be helpful.

I'd say I am. I don't like to tackle big projects so much, but I can assemble anything from furniture to grills. I just put my smoker together this summer, but honestly, all I had to do was attach some handles and put the legs on. I have completely rebuilt my old smoker (a Treager - never again!) ... I put every new part in that thing that was possible. From the auger to the control board. It was crap.

I have put beds, shelves, and all kinds of furniture together. I have put new screens in laptops, and new motherboards and power sources in computers. There is a video for everything on how to do it.

The major thing for me is tools. If it comes with a tool, the tool is junk! I have a good supply of my own tools, and DH has the mother load of mother loads for tools! LOL He is a mechanical genius. He can do anything from re-attaching a broken arm on a beloved Barbie doll with tiny screws and having it still fully functional to splitting a huge 4WD tractor and overhauling the engine.

I love that my kids are not afraid to tackle things. I've seen my daughter replace her taillight and put a new lock in a door. My son does most the repair work on his own car and for friends, and that is no where near his career choice. But he grew up fixing stuff with his dad and Pappy. He even wrote quite a detailed story in second grade on how to put a tractor tire back on the bead by only using ether and a match. Yikes. What happens when the kids are left with Dad for the day....

No, but I am also inclined to give up too easily if I don't crack it in the first few minutes. I am lucky enough to have a very mechanically minded DH so I rarely have to do stuff like that but I like to think I could watch some videos, and apply myself to do it if I had to  

I once put an entire ikea piece together completely backwards. I didn’t realize it until the final piece didn’t fit.

Yes, and I have some tests to prove it😀
My mother was too.

I also am good with maps and navigation. The easiest way to make me angry is to tell me all women are bad with directions.

Because I lived alone for so many years before getting married, I was forced to master some basic skills--e.g. putting IKEA furniture together etc. I used to watch PBS handyman shows so I knew what tools were what and could do the basics. It's mainly just patience and reading the directions carefully. I have begun changing flat tires even though I had AAA, just to say I could do it, but was always rescued by some good Samaritan. I now lack the grip strength to do things, so the mechanical stuff falls on DH, who is an engineer.

I would say possibly.  

I don’t mind putting things together and can typically with instructions, although there are often missteps or me not paying enough attention to small details/over confidence that I can do it by skimming the instructions .  😆 .  

I do think I am much better at figuring out the problems and issues when things aren’t right/don’t work right. I live alone and for many things try and do it myself if it is something I think I have a shot of doing fairly well and/or it not costing me a bundle to fix if I mess it up. 

ETA - I am very good at what we call “McGuyvering things” though. Using weird or different things (found/cheap/or because something doesn’t really exist) to get a desired outcome on a project.  I am not sure if that is considered being mechanically inclined or a different skill set?