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Anyone who has ever put together IKEA furniture is familiar with the funky deformed allen wrenches and other odd little tools that are packed with their customer assembled products. Some of these tools work fine if you are just putting together one item once in a while. But if you are like me and have
to put together a lot of units at one time for say, the office, it gets tiring. Also you end up keeping a drawer full of these stupid things, thinking you might need them in the future if you suddenly decide to disassemble your Vlarkke entertainment center.
IKEA Bits set has all the wierd little proprietary tools you need to put together their entire catalog of furniture and they're in a chuckable format for your multi-speed drill. Power through those six Toorg shelving units and four Iglim tables with ease and clear out your junk drawers of those silly freebie tools. Keep the set with your other drill bits and drivers.
The Multicoloured SwapShop
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If you have a set of metric-sized "allen screw" sockets, you will be able to assemble all of the "Markor" and "Enetri" shelving to your heart's content! |
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Or they could just conform to the tools used by the rest of the world. :P |
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IKEA uses a fairly standard hex bit (2.5mm, I think). They are available at practically any hardware store. Most screw bits for drills are a standard 5.5mm hex shank, or 1/4in in the US and UK, tapered to various common sizes. They are all designed to fit a standard, magnetised driver cup. |
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Fartful, the name of a children's desk, means 'speedy' in Swedish. Or so it is said. I think it means "breakfast cereal", at least in the case of the lactose intolerant no-meatballs-for-breakfast crowd. |
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Croissant for introducing me to Vlarkke & Toorg. |
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We had a Kvadrat kitchen in our
last house. I can imagine an
English furniture shop in Sweden -
"Ah, look at the Wanker Sofa, and
that Knobend Coffee table! Ooh,
the Tosser Floor Lamp - that's
nice." |
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<trying to laugh silently into a napkin while reading [hippo]'s anno so as not to attract attention.> |
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//IKEA uses a fairly standard hex bit//
I can't remember the size of the bit either, but it is a standard bit. I used an electric screwdriver to put up an IKEA shelving unit last year with no problems. |
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Thanks to all for annotations on the hex bits and not MDF'ing.
This wouldn't prevent this from being "marketable" as a bespoke tool set would it?
The TUUL set. |
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Ikea, the Norse God of stress. |
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[St Threef], we have 8 or 9 desks in this office, made for an Aussie company called Freedom Furniture. A bit more robust than IKEA, they use similar screws. Every time my wife decides to rearrange the office I get one of my battery drills and pull them apart then reconfigure everything. It takes a fraction of the normal time, with power tools and the right hex bits. |
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//...and leftover pieces.//
Thanks for the reminder Steve, we put up (count them) TWO drawer and cupboard arrangements in our office last year. We only have 3 drawers per units (I make that 6 draw fronts required no?).
We still have an extra 7 drawer fronts (Only!) sitting in the office waiting to be picked up.
How about extending this idea to having a 'Multi coloured SwapShop' (see link) stylee website for trading in leftover IKEA items?. You could *probably* furnish all the offices in Reading |
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If it ain't broke then fix it anyways... The bits left over will prolly come in handy on another job. |
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the NOT uplighter caused some confusion on our last visit. |
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thanks hippo, for the obligatory coffee all over the keyboard moment. |
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