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\nI just completed my longest ikeassembly<\/em> session ever. One \nI couldn’t have done it all without my cheap-ass $25 power \nI hereby dub this humble drill attachment “the Swedish bit”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPOÄNG chair (with footstool) and one six-drawer MALM chest.
\nThere’s nothing like the feeling of getting to the last little stumpy
\nscrew in a quart-sized bag which was once brimming with little bits and
\nbobs, like one of the little perforated plastic bags in a LEGO set, if
\nthis were The Most Giantest LEGO Set Evar. (There were two such bags
\nin the MALM, which was quite simply a beast:<\/em> about two hundred
\nmetal and wood connectors, twenty thick MDF planks, occupying
\ntwo<\/em> lumbar-shattering flat-pack boxes from the Warehouse.)\n<\/p>\n
\ndriver\/drill, however. (Not the wimpy Skil-Twist; this is seven volts
\nof mild-torque-inducing Target-bought Black & Decker!) The bit
\nextension saved my ass for a couple of drill spots, but the real MVP
\nwas the single lonely hex-bit (among the scads of screwdrivers, Torx
\ndrivers, and actual drill bits in the kit). It seems to have been
\ntossed in the drill package expressly for IKEA customers, as it fits
\nperfectly the tedious, Allen-wrenching bolts that make up the
\nPOÄNG.\n<\/p>\n