LPT: Tape the allen keys that comes with the furniture to its underside, so you have the exact right tool on the exact furniture you're trying to disassemble later on in the same place.

Oh no, IKEA uses 4mm or 5mm

I've never lost a 10, I have found about a dozen though so maybe it's some sort of diabolical cat distribution type system.

I have found the tools are of higher quality that the fittings. the bolts always strip regardless of what tool is used.

I also usually tape the tools to the underside of the furniture to use should it need to be tightened or deconstructed for moving.

I keep them.

I recently sold a metal bed frame which was assembled with hex screws, and it was good to be able to include the hex tool that came with it, so the person who bought it had what they need to put it together again.

I like printing handles for them!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2108540

I'm less concerned about the quality than the effort. Using an electric screwdriver will literally half the time it takes to make the furniture piece.

Gotta be at least 60 degrees at a time, or you can't reset the wrench to the next position.

Open end wrenches for external hex bolts are usually cocked 15 degrees so you can do as little as a 30 degree swing. Flipping the wrench switches the head from 15-degree left, to 15-degree right. Adding the 30 degree swing gives you a total of 60 degrees, which mean you can grab the next face on the bolt.

But Allen wrenches don't have such a feature. You need at least a 60-degree rotation before you can reset the wrench.

@cheeseburger@lemmy.ca take is valid and respectable, I just can't stand shitty tools 😅

Brother, you can buy a full set of hex heads designed for use in your power tools.

When you do get a tool box you'll suddenly have three boxes, and the tool you want is always in the last box.

One of my neighbors is a weird dude. He's never had a job, but instead tried to find creative ways to make money. Like he'll take up wood working for a week and try to sell his jankity furniture for prices you'd expect to see on masterfully made stuff.

Anyway, one day I saw him trying to sell a collection of about 50 of these Allen wrenches for $63 online. Like dude, you everyone has had the chance to amass a million of these things if they wanted.

They are cursed I say, hexed wenches!