Rainbow Allen keys

A moment of nostalgia. Bought these off Fred on the top deck of the car park off Brick Lane where Chris Crash was practising skids or something. Now I am ten years older, none the wiser and I still drop the 4mm key every time I use it.

Sorry, quiet day here in Uxbridge.

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Not seen those ones before. I quite like the multi-coloured Wera ones as it goes!

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Sorry, quiet day here in Uxbridge.

Neither apology nor explanation needed.

A lovely post on the nature of memory.

Bondhus here.

+1 for Bondhus

Wera are the ones. I find the coloured sleeve ones annoying to get out the holder though.

I have the Swiss rainbow ones. I love them.

Remember there being a group buy of them on here about a decade ago.

I stupidly bought the short ones. Keep meaning to buy a long set.

I have a fantasy that one day I’ll have a good workshop with tools. It’s never going to happen.

While we’re on Allen key fetish porn, I also really like the Wiha ones with Magic Ring. Come a close second to the Wera ones with their smooth, smooth shafts...

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Facom are good too, but Wera are wera it’s at.

Snap, except I bought mine off @freddo at Souths. Mine are well used, older than both my daughters and well used by them (they love the colours).

I just realised the 1 mm one is missing, will need to search toy boxes for it. Again.

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Isn't the problem with these that when you do eventually change to another set from another brand the colours are wrong and you forever reach for the wrong ones?

I have this set in my everyday carry. Seem to be made well.

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Think the Swiss tools ones are about £35 on a certain auction site. I had a set of Snap on allen keys, foolishly lent them to a "friend", they never came home.

WERA FTW,

strictly classic green here, with the sleeves on the 5/6mm cut short to fit into Shimano 600/DA quill stems.

lovely patina @Ludd @andyp ;)

It hadn't quite occurred to me how luxurious my two sets of allen keys are until I went about posting these but these are the two sets I have.

(In my defence the Silca set was a Christmas present from my girlfriend.)

Keys d'Allen

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Love these things and find the ball ends very handy - mine look a bit muckier though...

Hate a mucky ballend

From Yannick Granieri's Instagram just now.

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Silca are rebranded PBSwiss

Woah, those long ball-end ones are nearly £80! Wha!

They're plenty long enough to get decent torque on a crank bolt, which is very handy.