(June 12, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Moved in now. Feeling well? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING GIDDY!
But, in all this having assembled 4 bar stools I can say without a doubt, if I could take a time machine back in time, I WOULD FUCKING KILL THE ASSHOLE who invented the "Allan wrench". My new bar stools, I actually came across at an actual bar! I asked the guy where he go them, thinking I could not afford them, but then he told me. So I went and bought the same bar stools for my kitchen island! It matches my color scheme in any case.
I want to go back in time and fucking blow up the asshole who invented the "Allen wrench"!. If you have had ever dealt with that crap, then you know after the torque it is almost impossible to pull the fucking thing out! If I had sex like an actual Allen wrench, I would make Muslims and LDS look sterile.
I wiggled that damned thing more than I do in jacking off.
How much did you pay for the bar stools, and how much for the Allen wrench(es)? I have Allen wrenches that are decades old (and made in the US of some pretty damned hard steel- they will shatter, not bend, when over-torqued- that will still tighten the snot out of a set screw without losing shape. I've even used a cheater bar on the one that is used to remove the bolts on disc brake calipers, and it doesn't bend under such use. The cheap shit you can buy these days are a one-shot deal, and will be useless after (and quite possibly during the time that) the chairs are being assembled, as you discovered. That set cost me in 1970 dollars more than the sets that can be purchased today at the local hardware stores. I hate to think what it's going to cost me to replace some of my tools if they get stolen. Some of my wrenches (the big ones) are north of $100 for one, and I have dozens.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.