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Devil Lu Linvega

#lifehack of the day.

When an allen key becomes so used up that it spins in the socket, cut off the rounded bit and keep on using it.

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Kira, cozy autumn fox 🦊

@neauoire Ha ha, fantastic. Because an allen key is really just a single small allen key that has been extruded on both ends to form infinitely many potential smaller allen keys.

Devil Lu Linvega

@tty yeah! There was a brief moment when we're were like, shit, we need to go get a new one(we've got lots of pipes to connect still), then wait, no, there's like 40 allen keys in this allen key!

Ancient Good

@neauoire or cut slightly longer piece and you can use it with electric screewdriver

nomand

@neauoire hex fastener format is the worst piece of shit design ever made. It might as well be a fucking circle it makes me mad.

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