I keep them all in the hope that some day I can have someone forge a lifetime of Allen wrenches into a Damascus steel battle-axe
I feel like there should be some quotes in there. Damascus “Steel”
For a minute I thought you were throwing shade at Damascus steel but then I realized that those Allen Wrenches are probably made of aluminum.
Nah my wife loves Forged in Fire too much for me to dare criticize Damascus, its way too cold in my neck of the woods to spend a night in the dog house… And we don’t have a dog house.
As long as it has a massive IKEA logo embossed (or with filigree) on there somewhere, you have my vote.
Put it, along with the documentation for whatever the thing is, and tape (packing tape works well) to the back of the thing. When it comes time to move or do something that requires the manual and/or tools, you have both the tools and documentation easily at hand and not lost in some junk drawer somewhere.
Every 10th one you add to the drawer you get a prize.
I did this with my new daybed: tucked/taped the instructions, key and extra screwthingies under the mattress, so if it’s ever moved or sold they’ll be visible as soon as you take off the mattress to start.
I like to put it all in a zipper sandwich bag together and tape that to the thing
I have a couple of them saved, but I have sets of actual tools that include Allen wrenches. So, I don’t keep most of them. I do keep the instructions with the item, though.
They’re all the same, until they’re not. Some are extra long or specialized for the item being assembled. Sometimes they come with brothers.
I don’t know where they all go, but they’re here, somewhere.
I have a drawer specifically for things that tighten or loosen fasteners.
I have one of those.
It’s labeled “screw it.”
I put together a chair for my mom and they included a consumer grade T-hex with a molded plastic and rubber handle. This was for a single $120 wooden chair. It’s now in my toolbox next to my multi size hex key tool.
I just have an Allen key bit set that I use with an electronic screwdriver or ratchet now. Saves a decent amount of time.
Aren’t you a smartie.
I have even more than that. We regularly replace furniture at work and I end up with so many cheap tools. Once a year I put them in a box, hang a free take one sign and place it out front. It takes a day or two but they leave. Most likely it in their glove box in the car. They are not however in my office anymore.
i love my collection. no one will take my precioussss
$20 and you will never need those pieces of soft metal trash again.
Until you take out the most-common size, set it down somewhere, lose it, and have to buy another set, at which point you find the lost one.
Oh heavens! Can relate!
Or buy Bondhus and never need another set. Seriously.
I have a more comprehensive set than that, and I still keep all of the freebies
I have so many high quality hex wrenches now from work. I do not want the cheap ones, but I still feel bad throwing them away.
Made we collect them and melt them down to make a super tool. Because I have ton of these things.
Invest in good quality tools. Any tool that comes in a ziplock bag usual sucks
if they could all be the same size as i need for my fruit boots (4mm i think) that would be perfect.
constantly losing those bastards.
Just purged about ten of these a couple of weeks ago.
That’s when you’ll discover you need them.
I’ve got several of those little bastards. I feel the same way.
bro, they should be sending me metric drill bits instead. Those fucking drywall anchors they send are always in metric and I can never find my metric drill set.
After I started a 3d printing hobby all the hexes have been put to good use
£10 says you have a set of flush cutters with blue rubberised handles.
Mine broke, but… guilty lol
Wrong! I have 10 sets…
