LIDL - fettling ahoy - ball ended allen keys

[ScumOfTheRoad]

New forum, new avatar. Hello matey peeps.

In LIDL this morning for my weekly veggies shop. Had a look at the bike stuff, then in amongst the DIY stuff they have a chrome vanadium hex (allen) key set for 4 quid. Sizes range from 1.5mm to 10mm, the 10mm one is about eight inches long. It comes with a gert big handle for extra leverage. Good value for bike fettling I would say.

[mattc]

2nd-ed - used mine this morning.

[nuttycyclist]

OOOooooo, ta.    I need some with balls on to put the bed back together.

[alecstilleyedye]

i've got a stanley set, and they really are the nuts, the ball ended ones.

[nuttycyclist]

Went to Lidl.

No ball ends 

[simonali]

Bondhus for me. Lifetime warranty

[OliverBendix]

Have you ever claimed on the Bondhus warranty? I've ham-fistedly wrecked the 6mm from my Bondhus set on a pedal spindle - use a pedal wrench! - and I'm tempted to send it back. Does the warranty just work, like Zippo?

[gordon taylor]

I had a bad experience with a ball ended wrench. I was using it to tighten the rear axle bolt on a Goldtec hub and the wrench snapped at the ball. I might have been standing on it at the time. Anyway, the ball bit was completely stuck in the socket - and the socket was slightly distorted.

The whole mess was only fixed by the application of a big pipe wrench to the outside which wrecked the bolt completely.

So, I use my ball ended wrenches for spinning stuff in or out, but not for the final tightening.

[Hummers]

I had a bad experience with a ball ended wench.

What a great opening line for a post.

Or a rousing sea shanty perhaps:

I had a bad experience
With a ball ended wench
She said that she was clean downstairs
But oh my God the stench!

<chorus>

Oh hoist my mainsail high lads
As starboard we do list
I'm not too good at reefs and sheetbends
But you'd love my monkey's fist

<chorus>

The first mate's name was Riggers..
etc.

Carry on.


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