How many COMPLETE sets of Allen wrenches do you have?

[whydontu]

Posts on this site often solve problems I didn’t know I had. The metric and imperial T-handle sets I have on my workbench are identical. A few inches of heat shrink tubing and as of half an hour ago I can now distinguish metric from imperial. Simple and indestructible.

 

[jcdammeyer]

Four. SAE and metric Husky brand which I've had for probably 20 years and a similar Bondhus set that I picked up at KMS three or four years ago. Plus a plastic bin full of miscellaneous ones. I never even look at those ones so I'm not sure why I keep them.

Hide them in the trunk of the MGB. Then the rattle will remind you that you have tools available...

 

[Elektrishun]

Together at last:



Btw, if anyone is at KMS looking, this set is in the Clearance isle:

 

[Chicken lights]

I'll say five but the judges may say different

 

[jorogi]

What's wrong with you people ?
I have one set, CT special, T handle, red for imperial, blue for metric. Short normal stubby key on one of the short legs and a ball on the long leg.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

I probably have 5-6 sets of Bondus ball end's, another couple straight end sets, a couple folding sets, and some tee handles, all in In/MM. Then I have an entire mid cabinet drawer of loosies for modifying or special purposes, plus big boys from 3/8" up to 3/4. Yet I'm still a sucker when Princess auto puts them on sale......

Plus 1/4" hex driver bits, and 1/4" & 3/8" square drive ones too.

 

[Elektrishun]

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I don't know about complete sets but so far hands down the winner for most expensive! 🙂 Nice!

 

[someidiot]

I have your missing ones.

 

[Elektrishun]

I have your missing ones.

Well, I hope they went to a good home. Don't know how you got past the security camera and alarm...inside job? Do you deliver milk by any chance?

Please be good to them. Don't let them rust together like those unfortunate allen keys that @BaronJ has. 😳

 

[Mcgyver]

I prolly have 20 sets. A dozen metric and a dozen imperial.

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Same. sets within reach of most benches and machines. I built my shop over the decades by buying many complete boxes and selling off the duplicates. Didn't think of drills and allen keys as duplicates until I had sets all over the bloody place lol

 

[StevSmar]

5? Could be 6. Since I got the pretty colour Wera ones the others don’t get used much.

 

[trevj]

I figure I have parts of about a dozen sets. Won't claim to have a "complete" set of any of those though...

I still think they should sell 10mm sockets in convenience packs, with a mix of deep and shallow, 6 and 12 point sockets. It'd save a lot of wasted time... 😛

 

[Dan Dubeau]

I figure I have parts of about a dozen sets. Won't claim to have a "complete" set of any of those though...

I still think they should sell 10mm sockets in convenience packs, with a mix of deep and shallow, 6 and 12 point sockets. It'd save a lot of wasted time... 😛

https://www.amazon.ca/KD-Tools-80319-Master-Socket/dp/B00LH7DM14?ufe=app_do:amzn1.fos.a9cfdadb-853e-427d-a2b7-ed306eff4f60


https://www.princessauto.com/en/product/10-pc-10-mm-socket-set/PA0009236894

 

[Susquatch]

I still think they should sell 10mm sockets in convenience packs, with a mix of deep and shallow, 6 and 12 point sockets. It'd save a lot of wasted time...

I read this and thought the idea was brilliant! 10mm and 1/2 inch are ubiquitous! I confess that I have purchased quantity sets of 10,1/2, and 3/4 open end & ratchet combo wrenches for that very reason. I just bought multiples of the singles so I could have them handy where they are needed all the time.

Then I saw @Dan Dubeau 's post and went WTF! It's been available already! I just didn't know it!

Mind you, I like the combos because you don't need the ratchet handle.

I might have 2 dozen singles like this. Mostly farm equipment and machine shop applications. I have tote boxes for each machine that stack together. I keep all the pins, adjustment tools, and wrenches needed for that machine in one place.

For example, when I head out to plow, I grab the tote for the plow, hook up the plow with the plow pins in the tote, put the tote in the tractor cab, and go plowing. If I hit a monster rock and break a shear pin, I grab the tote, set it on the plow beam, drive out the broken pin with the driver tool I made that is already in the tote, and change the shear pin with the two 10mm combo rachets from the tote and a new pin from the zip lock bag of them that is already in the tote too.

I prolly have a dozen such totes. Best thing I ever did. Walking back to the shop every time I broke something was just stupid.

 

[Chicken lights]

I prolly have a dozen such totes. Best thing I ever did. Walking back to the shop every time I broke something was just stupid.

Carrying a battery and a tool box for a mile gets old. It's even more annoying when it's not flat ground or through corn stubble or bush or it's winter or there's a crick or it's a swamp or it's raining..... it gets old

 

[someidiot]

Wow - single-size sets. That's super-smart. No idea why I neither ran into (or thought of) that previously

 

[Susquatch]

Carrying a battery and a tool box for a mile gets old. It's even more annoying when it's not flat ground or through corn stubble or bush or it's winter or there's a crick or it's a swamp or it's raining..... it gets old

Yup! My dedicated tool tote strategy was one of the best ideas I ever had. Who says you can't have eleven 1/2" combo ratchet wrenches? This isnt exactly what I have but the Swivel Head is prolly what I would get if I had to do it over.

 

[historicalarms]

I grab the tote, set it on the plow beam, drive out the broken pin with the driver tool I made that is already in the tote, and change the shear pin with the two 10mm combo rachets from the tote and a new pin f

And then "drive on" leaving the tote on the beam until it falls off and is rolled around by the implement...tote is easy to find but contents are spread asunder

 

[JustaDB]

This isnt exactly what I have but the Swivel Head is prolly what I would get if I had to do it over.

I have an inexpensive set of SAE/metric open end/ratcheting combos I bought on sale from CT a few years back. My only disappointment so far is that I wish the ratcheting end swivelled.

I don't use them to break loose tight fasteners, but once I crack the nut loose w/ a box end wrench, they work reasonably well where you can't get a ratchet/socket into.

 

[Janger]

I'm in the right crowd all right. I felt guilty having several sets but some of you have even more! 😀

And the person I have to kill for losing a few of them is me....