here’s a tip. take some painters tape and tape the tools to the bottom of the thing you put together so it’s always there when you need to tighten or dismantle it for moving.
My collection is growing
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 12 hours ago
or have a toolbox so everytime you need to loosen or tighten absolutly anything in the house its in one spot. The toolbox.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
you must live alone.
thing with toolboxes and other people, shit is always missing or never put back away.
zephiriz@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Yes but what weird proprietary tool thing goes with what weird off brand IKEA wana be proprietary piece of furniture. You think I got time to try everything in the tool bag no I’m just grab the Phillips and strip the fuck.out of whatever it is get mad then glue it. Get mad that doesn’t work then chuck it out the window. /s Do I need to say this?
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Tape it to the underside, thank yourself when you’re taking it apart and already packed or lost your tools
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Help. I need tungsten to live.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Makes sense, you keep the furniture too after all
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
> 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.”
lengau@midwest.social 1 day ago
The key is to buy enough different pieces of furniture that you wind up with a separate set.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
his name is allen
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
i used to have so many of these things, then they disappeared. Mabye there’s a ghost in here who has ghost ikea furniture.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They are programmed to return to the factory after 5mo. Can’t waste that shareholder value letting it sit in some drawer weighing down our Q3 report.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
lmao
funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You mean Allen key!
Shrubbery@piefed.social 1 day ago
“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
Mercury@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s key.
funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
BanMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
The_v@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
BanMe@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
JeanValjean@piefed.social 1 day ago
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,
gerowen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 15 hours ago
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!
Headofthebored@lemmy.world 1 day ago
softest cheese.
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I ductape it to the furnature when possible so if I need it it’s there
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Good designs have a little pocket for manuals and hex wrenches
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!
flandish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
file a side flat and boom instant (hand) router blade.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hold up. Tell more.
sobchak@programming.dev 1 day ago
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Agreed
thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Grind them to what you need www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXBiA56eyc
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you don’t have a dozen 1.5mm hex wrenchs, is you life even worth living?
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I can’t split up the fambly.
pet1t@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Cleaned up my garage yesterday. Found about 15 of them, I guess
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
I bet these could be turned into wind chimes.
Heikki2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Curry working to cut them off so I can use them in my drill
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Usually the steel on those aren’t very good. Why don’t you have a simple bit set they includes Allen sockets?
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
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!
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Found one on the trail yesterday and stuffed it in my pocket. Long story, but I was packing 20lbs., scared, in a hurry, threw it back down. “Oh FFS I don’t need another one.”
kamen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, on top of the dedicated tools I’ve bought on their own.
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
One benefit of having bunch of them is providing them to friends/family when they help u assemble furniture.
Faster than having just one person doing all the jex wrench related tasks because the tasks are now parallelized.
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
During the future apocalypse a survivor might stumble upon this treasure trove of Allen wrenches. They could melt them down and forge a blade of some sort!
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s just that I’m confused whether it goes in with the aluminum or unsorted trash, so I never throw it out.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
I also get hex wrenches from buying guitars!
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Just add it to the drawer!
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.