Body Solid EXM3000 gym assembly ep2

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This is the pallet as I received it. The driver was nice enough to write "pending inspection" on the approval for the shipment. You can see a small box of weights on top. That one got saved, the eighth one must be lost between Tampa and Dayton.
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These are the seven boxes of weights I got. The machine has two weight stacks. So it finally occurred to me that it was unlikely that an odd number of boxes would work. Since each box has 5 weights, that means I received 35 plates. The "instructions" do not call out the number of plates, so I counted them up in one of the assembly drawings to see there were two stacks of 20. That is when I realized I was short one box. I will report on what it took to get the box replaced in the next articles and videos.

Here are the some of the small parts left after I did this video.
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Here are the pulleys, cables and rods.
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The box of plastic parts still has a lot of stuff inside it.

Then I rotated the gym 180 degrees from where I built it. I thought this would put the longer side against the window and leave more room to get around it. Turns out, the far back corner gets in the way of access to the patio door, especially with the pullback lat arms in this position. One thing I liked about this position was how there was no sharp metal on the floor under the seat for the squat station. I could see walking past at night and not stubbing my toe. Still, the floor station is not really clear to use.

So I rotated the machine another 90 degrees so that the long axis was perpendicular to the window, but now I could look out the window from the upper body station and the squat station. Turns out this too blocked access to the patio door, and also was a bit tight to the treadmill on the left side of the picture.