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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.

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  • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You mean Allen key!

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    • Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark

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      • Mercury@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s key.

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      • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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)

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.”

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    • lengau@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The key is to buy enough different pieces of furniture that you wind up with a separate set.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Makes sense, you keep the furniture too after all

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  • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • creepystephenscreepiestdoll@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🫣silly me thinking wrong upon “pulling it out every turn”

      I like birth control…

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  • JeanValjean@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Marrying

    https://www.harborfreight.com/8-piece-right-angle-screwdriver-92630.html

    with

    https://www.harborfreight.com/power-tools/drill-driver-bits/driving-impact-bits/security-bit-set-with-case-100-piece-68457.html

    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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    • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Error 405 for both links.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        PITTSBURGH Ratcheting Right Angle Multi-Bit Screwdriver Set, 8 Piece + WARRIOR Security Bit Set with Case, 100-Piece

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!

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      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        JB is my favorite welder

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  • gerowen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Headofthebored@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      softest cheese.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I ductape it to the furnature when possible so if I need it it’s there

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good designs have a little pocket for manuals and hex wrenches

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    file a side flat and boom instant (hand) router blade.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hold up. Tell more.

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      • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve always seen them curved like this:

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        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):

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      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Agreed

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you don’t have a dozen 1.5mm hex wrenchs, is you life even worth living?

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    • Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t split up the fambly.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      or have a toolbox so everytime you need to loosen or tighten absolutly anything in the house its in one spot. The toolbox.

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you must live alone.

        thing with toolboxes and other people, shit is always missing or never put back away.

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      • zephiriz@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • bigbabybilly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tape it to the underside, thank yourself when you’re taking it apart and already packed or lost your tools

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I bet these could be turned into wind chimes.

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  • Heikki2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Curry working to cut them off so I can use them in my drill

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Usually the steel on those aren’t very good. Why don’t you have a simple bit set they includes Allen sockets?

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  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Help. I need tungsten to live.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    his name is allen

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  • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        lmao

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.”

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, on top of the dedicated tools I’ve bought on their own.

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  • romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also get hex wrenches from buying guitars!

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    • creepystephenscreepiestdoll@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those are completely different, built much better and only meant to make tiny adjustments… Cherish those keys…

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  • thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Grind them to what you need www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXBiA56eyc

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  • pet1t@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cleaned up my garage yesterday. Found about 15 of them, I guess

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  • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s just that I’m confused whether it goes in with the aluminum or unsorted trash, so I never throw it out.

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  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just add it to the drawer!

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