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20 x 4mm ?
Not bad. My favourite of these is where he’s holding a random DC power pack.
Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.
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!
*Throws hex wrench at you*
Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
You can’t dodge my never ending supply of hex wrenches forever!
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
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.
Name checks out
A group of crows is a Murder of Crows.
A goup of cows is a mudu of cows
> 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.
Makes sense, you keep the furniture too after all
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.
🫣silly me thinking wrong upon “pulling it out every turn”
I like birth control…
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
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
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)
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.
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
edit: it worked great. The plug had dielectric corrosion (steel plug in a mag/alum body) and at first I thought I just tightened it up too much but nope, I felt that rust break, saw the removal of material on the plug itself once it was all the way out, and I’m sure it’s in the secondary fuel filter now. Replaced with a brass plug that had a 19mm hex head on it so no more worries. Big wrench, little torque kinda thing - it’s the o-ring that makes the seal, not the torque.
I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!
JB is my favorite welder
Had a buckle on my favorite boot break. Cross section to be repaired was 1.5mm x 1.5mm. Held solid for months until I drunkenly tripped over the strap tongue at a party. (Not the first time drunk, tongue and party was a thing in my life.) JB welded it again. Stayed tight.
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.
softest cheese.
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.
I ductape it to the furnature when possible so if I need it it’s there
Good designs have a little pocket for manuals and hex wrenches
file a side flat and boom instant (hand) router blade.
Hold up. Tell more.
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
Agreed
If you don’t have a dozen 1.5mm hex wrenches, is you life even worth living?
I can’t split up the fambly.
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.
