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I just completed my longest ikeassembly session ever. One
POÄNG chair (with footstool) and one six-drawer MALM chest.
There’s nothing like the feeling of getting to the last little stumpy
screw in a quart-sized bag which was once brimming with little bits and
bobs, like one of the little perforated plastic bags in a LEGO set, if
this were The Most Giantest LEGO Set Evar. (There were two such bags
in the MALM, which was quite simply a beast: about two hundred
metal and wood connectors, twenty thick MDF planks, occupying
two lumbar-shattering flat-pack boxes from the Warehouse.)

I couldn’t have done it all without my cheap-ass $25 power
driver/drill, however. (Not the wimpy Skil-Twist; this is seven volts
of mild-torque-inducing Target-bought Black & Decker!) The bit
extension saved my ass for a couple of drill spots, but the real MVP
was the single lonely hex-bit (among the scads of screwdrivers, Torx
drivers, and actual drill bits in the kit). It seems to have been
tossed in the drill package expressly for IKEA customers, as it fits
perfectly the tedious, Allen-wrenching bolts that make up the
POÄNG.

I hereby dub this humble drill attachment “the Swedish bit”.