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.

They're the worst and I don't even use them the first time to assemble things in most cases, but I too have a whole bag of them.

After I started a 3d printing hobby all the hexes have been put to good use

I have a drawer specifically for things that tighten or loosen fasteners.

£10 says you have a set of flush cutters with blue rubberised handles.

Most places will only accept metal items if they're a certain size, which most allen keys almost certainly won't meet.

For example, it looks like Seattle, (which has some of the best recycling system rates and practices in America) will only accept metal tools or scrap metal larger than 3 inches. Anything smaller than that can damage the machines they use for recycling, get diverted into the landfill stream because it can't be sorted out, and/or slow down or stop the recycling process for other materials because it needs to be filtered out before it can make its way into the machinery that can't handle small parts.

However, they do have drop-off options, which can take scrap of any size. So the choice is either throw it in the recycling bin and potentially damage or slow down the recycling machinery, or stash them away until you have enough to justify going to a drop-off.

Wrong! I have 10 sets....

Well then I just suck at wrenching properly.

How many torques are on that?

Ideas:

• Weld a nut onto the top of it. Should be able to accomplish this with a MIG and a steady hand
• Cut a slot in the top with a rotary tool cutting wheel, use a large manual impact driver to crack it, or a dull chisel/flat punch and a hammer to tap it around (clearance might be an issue here)
• Rotary tool again, cut faces on two sides, locking pliers, turn them with channel locks
• Rotay tool yet again, cut faces on six sides, hammer a possibly sacrificial six point socket on it

Mine broke, but.. guilty lol

I like you, you're a good human. Saving this for if/when it needs to be replaced in the future.

i love my collection. no one will take my precioussss

Just purged about ten of these a couple of weeks ago.

if they could all be the same size as i need for my fruit boots (4mm i think) that would be perfect.

constantly losing those bastards.

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

I feel like there should be some quotes in there. Damascus "Steel"

For a minute I thought you were throwing shade at Damascus steel but then I realized that those Allen Wrenches are probably made of aluminum.

Nah my wife loves Forged in Fire too much for me to dare criticize Damascus, its way too cold in my neck of the woods to spend a night in the dog house... And we don't have a dog house.

I put together a chair for my mom and they included a consumer grade T-hex with a molded plastic and rubber handle. This was for a single $120 wooden chair. It's now in my toolbox next to my multi size hex key tool.