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…
They’ve been handy as levers for all kinds of stuff. They often won’t resist being used as that, but well, the other option is throwing them out and bending something else.
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 so many high quality hex wrenches now from work. I do not want the cheap ones, but I still feel bad throwing them away.
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.
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.
I like to put it all in a zipper sandwich bag together and tape that to the thing
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.
Every 10th one you add to the drawer you get a prize.
Invest in good quality tools. Any tool that comes in a ziplock bag usual sucks
i love my collection. no one will take my precioussss
Made we collect them and melt them down to make a super tool. Because I have ton of these things.
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.
I have an entire BOX of em 😆
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.
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 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.
They’re the worst and I don’t even use them the first time to assemble things in most cases, but I too have a whole bag of them.
