I have assembled my fair share of IKEA and Target furniture over the years and it seems like everything comes with its own Allen wrench. Often, furniture needs to be tightened or even completely unassembled so it may be prudent to hang on to the Allen wrenches.
Many of the wrenches for assemble-it-yourself furniture are interchangeable but some are size specific. I got a teeny tiny Allen wrench with the bathtub faucet handle I installed last year that I'll definitely need again in the future. So I keep all of the wrenches in a labelled envelope in our junk/tool drawer. To keep track of the Allen wrenches I label them with painters tape. Of course, I could buy a set of Allen wrenches but why do that when I keep getting them for free?
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Clever idea, though I must say using a "real" allen wrench set when putting together ikea furniture makes the whole job much, much easier.
Maybe its really fussy but I save instructions for furniture, after a few moves of trying to piece stuff together after taking it apart i learned my lesson. So I will usually just tape the wrench the instructions, or if there are several pieces staple them in a ziplock to the instructions, then everything is together. Really its worth the 30 seconds it takes to do it.
On the other hand, having a complete set of Allen wrenches with a holder that lives in my tool chest, and getting rid of all the furniture assembly ones from IKEA, was absolutely worth $5 at the hardware store.
I'm with home body and morgan p. I don't have that many tools, but my Swiss-army-style allen wrench set has most definitely come in handy over the years, and not just for me, but also for roommates and ooohh half my college dorm :)
We tape ours to the underside of the furniture.
One set of imperial, and one set of metric allen keys are a much better solution.
I use my bike wrench for most of my allen wrench purposes. But these are all good solutions too.
Seriously... allen keys.
Then again, I work in entertainment/production, so I need them ALL.THE.TIME. But yeah, why bother. It's not like a set of allen keys is cost prohibitive.
Like tequila red, and copying my father-in-law, I tape the key to the appropriate piece of furniture. When a mover was once doing our stuff all on his own, he was most impressed at the idea...
ditto with taping the key to the item it helped assemble. but taping it to the instructions would also be good. for things like faucets that don't have a ... tapeable? ... place, the labels & envelope make perfect sense.
for IKEA furniture I prefer a set of allen bits and my screwgun. Saves me a ton of time. Most of our office is IKEA and i can't imagine ever doing it all by hand.
taping them to the piece of furniture is a good idea. Still, a couple sets are a really good buy to have in your toolkit. they'll most likely be better quality as well.
also - a set of allen heads that fit in the hexagonal connectors for cordless drills. It'll halve your IKEA construction time (obviously make sure you set your ratchet to a lower # than drill to not put the screw through the veneer).
I agree with getting allen keys & allen bits rather than taping the freebie ones.
Good idea.