What do you do with your included assembly tools?

[f121]

In the scrap, then it gets weighed in eventually.

 

[Skellyii]

Oh, were we actually supposed to use those things??

 

[NUTTSGT]

I keep them because why not? Then if someone tells me they need an allen wrench I let them borrow one of those. Also I could never throw away a tool.

Blake keeps them after taking a picture of said allen wrench on his pant leg and posts it in "New Tool Arrival" thread.

 

[CraigStu]

I toss some of them. But I have a small drawer of modified metric wrenches and another for fractional. I put the cheap wrenches in there. They are good to use to bend into a special shape for a weird access situation so I don't have to sacrifice a good wrench.

 

[Junkdrawer Dog]

I put the allen wrenches in a zip lock bag and throw the other types of wrenches in the trash.

 

[Fixr]

Depends entirely on the quality of the included tools. A stamped steel open end wrench that is little more than sheet metal? Probably straight to the scrap bin. A crudely finished but forged combination wrench? Probably into the bin of crummy tools that are destined to be bent and beaten into being useful in an awkward situation.

 

[Just Puttering]

I never gave them any thought till now…just read this thread and wandered into the shop to gather them up from the various tool box corners and threw them all away.

 

[wantedabiggergarage]

I try to not buy too much stuff that comes with them (Ikea furniture).
The one Item that I have bought multiple of, that comes with them, also has a spot to keep them with it for adjustment, and that is my multimonitor stands. I have kept them with them as I wasn't completely done with furniture rearrangement at my house, after living in it for years, before being able to buy it (part of friends estate)

 

[MichaelP]

I keep them because why not? Then if someone tells me they need an allen wrench I let them borrow one of those.

Now we know why you lost all your friends.

On the topic of what I do with the enclosed tools. I rip them out of hands of my retired FIL and try to convince him to use mine if I ask him to assemble something while I'm at work. He is an electronics guy and seems not to see much difference between good and bad mechanical tools. He, mostly, manages the tasks, and all I need to do after returning is to reassemble and readjust a few parts.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

The allen wrenches get tossed in the scrap. The thin stamped wrenches I'll usually keep at least one of each size on hand. They've come in handy in a pinch when I needed a really thin wrench in a low torque scenario and didn't want to grind down a nice wrench to fit.

 

[cody1325]

They usually get stashed somewhere on or in the general vicinity of the furniture assembled with the tools. They ****, and quite often, I end up using something else. Recently assembled a wheel stand for a sim racing setup, and I ended up just using a Crescent wrench and the Kobalt Tool Check clone out of my household box to put it together.

Only ones I really care for reusing are the little thin open-end wrenches. They've saved my **** before.

 

[pbon]

I just threw out a bunch. Kept them for a long time but they are so junky and I have enough good tools that they literally never got used again. Some hex keys remain. I tossed them in with the others and it is hard to tell them apart from some similar looking higher quality ones that I have — not all my included ones were short and not all my good ones were long so I’d really have to study them.

 

[GRN96WS6]

I save them for 20+ years then go to the metal recycler and have to pay them to take them......

 

[Mike65]

I keep them with the tool if said tool has a box or they go in the Allen key drawer in the toolbox. Nothing gets thrown away.

 

[CJ7VFR]

I save them in a drawer in my toolbox. Not to actually use them but to fill up the envelopes sent to me by companies that want people to sign up for whatever they are pushing and want you to mail the paperwork back to them in their self addressed big *** envelope.

These companies have to pay the postage when you send those big envelopes back to them, so I put in a bunch of those useless tools in the envelope so it weighs a ton and they have to pay a fortune in postage when it goes back to them.

I just put the tools in there and none of their actual paperwork so that they have no idea who it is that sent it back to them. I don't know if they ever do actually get the envelopes, or if they actually pay the huge postage due on them, but it makes me feel better thinking I screwed them over on the postage and it gets rid of those useless tools.

Jim

 

[egdede]

I give them to my 5yo son.....The hammer stays with me though... learned that lesson the hard way. When a 4-5 year boy has a hammer in his hands, everything is a nail.

When I was 5, everything in my hand was a hammer : )

 

[reader2580]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the USPS simply throws away postage reply envelopes that are filled with heavy junk like that. Someone legitimately replying isn’t going to send a bunch of junk. Too much stuff in the envelope won’t go through the sorting machines.