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
As long as it has a massive IKEA logo embossed (or with filigree) on there somewhere, you have my vote.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Invest in good quality tools. Any tool that comes in a ziplock bag usual sucks
It feels wrong to throw an apparently pristine tool in the trash.
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.
$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!
Made we collect them and melt them down to make a super tool. Because I have ton of these things.
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.
i love my collection. no one will take my precioussss
Were we supposed to give it back?
After I started a 3d printing hobby all the hexes have been put to good use
Excellent use of Bilbo 😂
