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Cleaned up my garage yesterday. Found about 15 of them, I guess
I hate that they include these. But only since I built a home with 2 workshops and filled them with quality tools. 20 year old me was thankful for these shitty Allen keys.
I was shocked when i found a box full of them. Just couldn’t comprehend how many of them can be. Probably 50 if not more. If you pack it in a sock - it would knock someone out.
And then my dad said - you think we bought all that furniture in one go? That shelf - one. That bookcase - one. That bed table - three and so on. Years later when we moved out to our new apartment and started buying new furniture - i noticed that these wrenches keep on piling up naturally.
Makes sense, you keep the furniture too after all
> Eyeballs a hex screw to tighten up a door handle
> Grabs a likely suspect out of the drawer
> Doesn’t work
> Gets another
> Doesn’t work
> Third time’s a charm
> Doesn’t work
> Gets the full set of hex keys in the same room as the drawer“Hey hon, the door handle’s fixed.”
The key is to buy enough different pieces of furniture that you wind up with a separate set.
Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.
Marrying
https://www.harborfreight.com/8-piece-right-angle-screwdriver-92630.html
with
has been a game changer for assembling flat pack furniture. As a result, the hex keys just get tossed in a bucket of other hex keys,
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No no no. Throw that away, first thing you do. Have a driver set with every size Allen key, you insert bit into a screwdriver handle and it ratchets. No more bloody knuckles, or pulling it out every turn because your key hits another part. Makes furniture go together so much faster.
Almost there…
A small cordless drill with a torque setting plus a driver set. A short flexible bit holder for the tight spots.
Drop the torque setting all the way down then use the drill for most of the work. Then finish tightening with a reacheting screwdriver.
Between the size of the drill and the constant adjusting of torque I really prefer hand tools here. You can feel when the screws and cams are in place.
This is the way…it’s challenging enough of you’re not used to assembling furniture, it’d be an absolute nightmare to try and assemble it with the garbage Allen wrenches
And they’re always the softest mild steel they could find so it’ll cam out, destroy the head on a bolt and force you to go dig your good one out anyway.
They’ll save your good one from 10 or so uses, and if there’s just 4 screws you can keep one and use when the next item has 16.
Or cut the cammed-out part for a shorter one with 10 more uses!
softest cheese.
I ductape it to the furnature when possible so if I need it it’s there
Good designs have a little pocket for manuals and hex wrenches
I throw them at birds I don’t like.
You know…birds are actually very intelligent. And some of them actually are very good at remembering faces.
Crows will even teach their young who they trust, and who to divebomb.
Now you may be thinking that I’m going to say that crows teach their young to poop on your car. But that’s not true. Birds don’t have a spincter. Which means they can’t close their butthole.
Basically if a bird has to poop, there is a 100% chance they are pooping right now. So no. Birds cannot target you with their poop.
What they can do however is refuse to send you an invitation to the social event of the season. The “Going South Gala”. Where we all gather at the park, and engage in random groupings of people to perform oral sex on each other while birds watch and rate our performances. And thats not even to speak of the grandest gathering of the year, The Grand Big Ball. We get 1000 guys, and 2000 girls. The girls group up, two to a guy. One girl on each ball. And they suck and lick, and compete with each other over who’s the BJ queen.
Then the birds all rate the girls. The girl with the lowest score is then divebombed by all the birds until she’s dead. What? You never heard of a murder of crows before? Oh what am I saying? You don’t get to go to The Grand Big Ball!
Silly me!
The Gala’s still alright I guess(even though it skews pretty old) but the Ball has been over-hyped for like 10 years now. The whole thing has gone corporate and the vibe isn’t the same, fucking ads everywhere.
*Throws hex wrench at you*
Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
You can’t dodge my never ending supply of hex wrenches forever!
They gotta learn how to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge
Needlessly Aggressively Throes creepy doll at you
We need more of this sort of content in the fediverse; slightly mad, hinting at esoteric knowledge, and promising to lift the veil on hithro unknown worlds.
In short, I need to know more about the secret lives of high society avians.
Well it wouldn’t be secret if we told you
Only a fkn bird would say that
A group of crows is a Murder of Crows.
A goup of cows is a mudu of cows
Name checks out
You mean Allen key!
“Allen Key” is a trademark, “hex wrench” is the generic term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_(brand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key
May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark
Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.
Zamboni too
See you in the Jacuzzi
Does Velcro work in those?
Can you pass me a Kleenex?
Let me put all these down on a Post-it note with my Sharpie
Or every large metal trash container a dumpster, or every cotton swab a q-tip etc.
After doing a bunch of carpentry this year, now I have metric and imperial sets of nice long hex bits for my high torque impact driver.
Something is gonna move, one way or another!
It’s just that I’m confused whether it goes in with the aluminum or unsorted trash, so I never throw it out.
heh, I just dug one of those out of the scrap bucket and epoxied it into a drain plug in my truck that I finished rounding out in spectacular fashion.
I wasn’t the asshole who started rounding it, but I sure was the asshole that finished the job. Replacement with an actual hex head on it is sitting on the workbench. No more water trap woes if the cheap hex wrench stays glued in that fucked up part
I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!
JB is my favorite welder
Had a buckle on my favorite boot break. Cross section to be repaired was 1.5mm x 1.5mm. Held solid for months until I drunkenly tripped over the strap tongue at a party. (Not the first time drunk, tongue and party was a thing in my life.) JB welded it again. Stayed tight.
