orhtej2My collection is growing
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👍Maximum Derek👍Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.
\[DUMBASS]/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!
Name checks out
*Throws hex wrench at you*
Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
You cant 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.
MinnesotaGoddamWell it wouldn’t be secret if we told you
A group of crows is a Murder of Crows.
A group of cows is a mudu of cows
agamemnonymousThe 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.
AkasazhI also get hex wrenches from buying guitars!
Those are completely different, built much better and only meant to make tiny adjustments… Cherish those keys…
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
I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!
Sundray
funkajunk 🇨🇦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
Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.
Zamboni too
Does Velcro work in those?
Can you pass me a Kleenex?
MelodiousFunk
jawa22May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark
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)
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!
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.
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
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.
sorrybookbrokeI ductape it to the furnature when possible so if I need it it’s there
GerowenAnd 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.
ChaoticNeutralCzechThey’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!
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.