This is not an Allen key, it's an Innensechskantschlüssel nursing it's Innensechskantnachwuchsschlüsselset. Please stick to correct international naming conventions.
TIL "Inbus" is not really equivalent to Innensechskant, as it refers to a company that produces allen keys and has just become synonymous with it in German, like "Tempo" has for tissues.
EDIT: Turns out it's the same in English, Allen is a company and the more generic term is hex key.
yeah, in my house we'd call them plus screwdrivers and stanley screwdrivers. i call them slot screwdrivers (probably, i'm typing not screwing) now, but thanks for that mindfuck dad.
What you see here are years of battle. The mother wrench has had to grind her horn shorter and shorter. A matriarch in her twilight years, but the call of life doesn't stop in the wild.
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Ravi@feddit.org · 31 pts · 118d
This is not an Allen key, it's an Innensechskantschlüssel nursing it's Innensechskantnachwuchsschlüsselset. Please stick to correct international naming conventions.
webp@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 118d
Nonspeakers will die before reaching the end of that sentence
DivineDev@piefed.social · 3 pts · 118d
TIL "Inbus" is not really equivalent to Innensechskant, as it refers to a company that produces allen keys and has just become synonymous with it in German, like "Tempo" has for tissues.
EDIT: Turns out it's the same in English, Allen is a company and the more generic term is hex key.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 118d
yeah, in my house we'd call them plus screwdrivers and stanley screwdrivers. i call them slot screwdrivers (probably, i'm typing not screwing) now, but thanks for that mindfuck dad.
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 22 pts · 119d
That’s metal.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 119d
Why is the big key’s head so short? That looks borderline unusable.
ImInLoveWithLife@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 119d
They make stubby allen keys for tight spots. I replaced a cooling fan on a Mazak cnc lathe a few weeks ago, and I'm glad I had a set of stubbies.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 118d
TIL.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 118d
Now now, we don’t body shame.
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 118d
What you see here are years of battle. The mother wrench has had to grind her horn shorter and shorter. A matriarch in her twilight years, but the call of life doesn't stop in the wild.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 119d
They do seem to multiply rapidly.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 119d
Until you need them, then they’re nowhere to be found, or only the wrong sizes
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 9 pts · 119d
The one in the middle seems a bit confused.
Or is that the only one NOT confused?
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 119d
This looks like a shrimp lol
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 118d
Shhhhhh don't disturb them. Just admire nature in all it's glory
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 2 pts · 119d
Thought that said Alien and was confused about how this related to xenomorphs xD
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 118d
who magnitzes a allen key? you know how hard it is to get off that metallic dust off magnet?