The stand is very heavy. The frame is not at all heavy, it is the three thick glass shelves that add all the weight. I used the thin styrofoam type packing wrap to hold the shelves, which helped my grip as well as keep the glass fingerprint-free. Assembly may have been dull but I worked while watching television so I did not notice the passing of time. Everything lined up 
properly and went together without even a single mumbled curse. Knowing my wife’s liking for spontaneously rearranging furniture, I stuck some heavy duty felt pads onto the bottom of the feet before I loaded the stand with the glass shelves.
As other people reviews have mentioned, the shelves are not really anchored onto the stand but the little rubbery adhesive nubs helped to add plenty of friction as well as protection and the weight of the glass, even unladed with equipment, keeps the shelves pretty definitely in place — unless perhaps you live in earthquake territory and, if you do, you probably should think about something that does not contain huge glass shelves, even if the glass is tempered
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