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finalarbiter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Allen is a brand name, they’re hex keys/wrenches

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- bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah you are right
  
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  - LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Positive affirmation 🥰🥰
    
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fayoh@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Innensechskantschraube Bauer und Schaurte probably
    
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    EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Well yeah but still, who would think of that?
    
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bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Maybe, I do hear hex a bunch

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