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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.”
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.
or have a toolbox so everytime you need to loosen or tighten absolutly anything in the house its in one spot. The toolbox.
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?
… Who hurt you?
The desk that is glued together in my room?
you must live alone.
thing with toolboxes and other people, shit is always missing or never put back away.
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.
I bought a $15 cordless screwdriver for this exact reason and it’s great. No need to drag out the whole 18v drill but it makes fastening things much quicker and the built in torque limiter means I can cinch every bolt in a chair up to the same spec easily.
🫣silly me thinking wrong upon “pulling it out every turn”
I like birth control…
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
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.
file a side flat and boom instant (hand) router blade.
Hold up. Tell more.
Agreed
I’ve always seen them curved like this:
But I suppose they could be straight; here’s one that looks like it just uses a chisel (doubt it would work as well though):
OH! Very slick. :)
yep. thats exactly what i was thinking
Grind them to what you need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXBiA56eyc
Makes sense, you keep the furniture too after all
Just add it to the drawer!
I have a toolbox compartment for these.
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
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.
May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark
Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s key.
You know that a company can loose its trademark if the term is widely used in society to describe a product category instead of the product of that company?
You only help big corporations by enforcing not to use the trademark name for a product category.
Don’t be a capitalism enabler!
(Warning satire)
Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.
Not bad. My favourite of these is where he’s holding a random DC power pack.
If you don’t have a dozen 1.5mm hex wrenches, is you life even worth living?
I can’t split up the fambly.
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,
Error 405 for both links.
20 x 4mm ?
