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This is not an Allen key, it's an Innensechskantschlüssel nursing it's Innensechskantnachwuchsschlüsselset. Please stick to correct international naming conventions.

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Nonspeakers will die before reaching the end of that sentence

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DivineDevreply
piefed.social

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.

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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.

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lemmy.world

Why is the big key’s head so short? That looks borderline unusable.

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lemmy.world

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.

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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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The one in the middle seems a bit confused.

Or is that the only one NOT confused?

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You reached the end

Here we have a rare glimpse of the mother Allen key nursing her young. | Spyke