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Hi, I'm Steve Smith with Camper Van

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Freedom. This is my DEWALT folding metric

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hex-key set. I own several folding metric

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tools, but this is the one I

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reach for first when I see it.

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It is another of my favorite DEWALT

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tools. On my roof assembly,

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an Allen key also helped position the

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small slot nuts. The matching product picture

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shows the keys retained in a folding

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handle. An individual key rotates out for

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work at the fastener.

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Keeping the keys together changes how I

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carry and handle the set compared with

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separate L-shaped keys. The handle shape also

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matters when there is little room beside

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a joint. My roof-assembly photographs show small

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bolts, slot hardware and an angle connection.

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The rack used quarter-twenty hardware,

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while my added twenty-twenty extrusion used M

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five hardware. These were different hardware systems

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meeting in the assembly.

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The workshop footage illustrates measuring and holding

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work. The small nuts moved and spun

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while I tried to start the bolts.

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I used the thin bars of an

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Allen key to fish them into position

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inside the extrusion. Positioning the nut came

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before getting the bolt started.

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The diagram separates the slot,

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the moving nut and the approaching bolt.

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My owner review is straightforward: this DEWALT

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is the folding metric tool I reach

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for first. That preference sits alongside the

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practical assembly story. A compact hand tool

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helped with a fiddly positioning job after

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the larger cutting and drilling tasks were

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already behind me. The close-up photographs show

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the connection rather than a cutaway of

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the channel. Moving the nut,

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lining up the opening and starting the

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bolt were separate parts of fitting the

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joint. The small hand tool's reach mattered

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here, as did the room occupied by

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its handle. My page compares two researched

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alternatives. Bondhus one zero nine nine nine

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supplies separate L-shaped metric keys with ball

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ends. Klein seven zero five eight two

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keeps metric keys together in a folding

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handle. Their matching pictures show the two

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arrangements. My own preference in this review

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is the DEWALT I used.

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Thanks for watching. I'm Steve Smith with

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Camper Van Freedom. This was my DEWALT

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metric hex-key review and the small-nut alignment

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problem behind my roof connection.

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The full review, build photographs and current

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buying options are linked below.

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Until next time.