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Tape it to the underside, thank yourself when you’re taking it apart and already packed or lost your tools
I do this with loose screws and bolts as well.
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.
Help. I need tungsten to live.
his name is allen
i used to have so many of these things, then they disappeared. Mabye there’s a ghost in here who has ghost ikea furniture.
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.
lmao
Grind them to what you need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXBiA56eyc
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.
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.
Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.
Makes sense, you keep the furniture too after all
Cleaned up my garage yesterday. Found about 15 of them, I guess
> 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.”
The key is to buy enough different pieces of furniture that you wind up with a separate set.
I throw them at birds I don’t like.
You know…birds are actually very intelligent. And some of them actually are very good at remembering faces.
Crows will even teach their young who they trust, and who to divebomb.
Now you may be thinking that I’m going to say that crows teach their young to poop on your car. But that’s not true. Birds don’t have a spincter. Which means they can’t close their butthole.
Basically if a bird has to poop, there is a 100% chance they are pooping right now. So no. Birds cannot target you with their poop.
What they can do however is refuse to send you an invitation to the social event of the season. The “Going South Gala”. Where we all gather at the park, and engage in random groupings of people to perform oral sex on each other while birds watch and rate our performances. And thats not even to speak of the grandest gathering of the year, The Grand Big Ball. We get 1000 guys, and 2000 girls. The girls group up, two to a guy. One girl on each ball. And they suck and lick, and compete with each other over who’s the BJ queen.
Then the birds all rate the girls. The girl with the lowest score is then divebombed by all the birds until she’s dead. What? You never heard of a murder of crows before? Oh what am I saying? You don’t get to go to The Grand Big Ball!
Silly me!
The Gala’s still alright I guess(even though it skews pretty old) but the Ball has been over-hyped for like 10 years now. The whole thing has gone corporate and the vibe isn’t the same, fucking ads everywhere.
*Throws hex wrench at you*
Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
You can’t dodge my never ending supply of hex wrenches forever!
They gotta learn how to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge
Needlessly Aggressively Throes creepy doll at you
We need more of this sort of content in the fediverse; slightly mad, hinting at esoteric knowledge, and promising to lift the veil on hithro unknown worlds.
In short, I need to know more about the secret lives of high society avians.
Well it wouldn’t be secret if we told you
Only a fkn bird would say that
A group of crows is a Murder of Crows.
A goup of cows is a mudu of cows
Name checks out
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.
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
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,
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