Comment on acceptable screws

• finalarbiter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve ever heard that fastener called an Allen bolt, just the tool (Allen key). I’ve generally heard them called hex sockets heads. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

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  • LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Allen is a brand name, they’re hex keys/wrenches

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    • bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah you are right

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      • LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Positive affirmation 🥰🥰

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  • fayoh@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact speaking of regional things, in Swedish they are called “insex” (as in six on the inside)

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    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Dutch they are called “inbus”, which apparently comes from the German name “Innensechskantschraube Bauer und Schaurte”, where Innensechskantschraube means inside six sided screw and Bauer und Schaurte is the company who patented the screw type.

      I have no idea how the name inbus came to be

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      • Olmai@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Innensechskantschraube Bauer und Schaurte probably

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  • bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe, I do hear hex a bunch

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• Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just rude, really.

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• BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed, but I often hear Allen keys referred to as hex keys. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone confused by that though.

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• Rinox@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nobody calls Allen bolts hexagon either.

  That’s not true when working internationally, since it can have different names in different nations. In Italy is Brugola, in Germany Inbus and in other places it has other names. Everyone understands what a hex key is though

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