Meltdown, complete with an Allen key hurled into oblivion, came on Friday, when a box from John Lewis containing a seesaw claiming to be "easy to assemble" actually consisted of a brain-exploding puzzle of 80 bars, bolts, screws and washers of infinitesimally different sizes.
This is the first sign that Almhult is no ordinary town, but the centre of a cult, northern Europe's very own Pyongyang, where the Allen key has replaced the nuclear bomb and Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea's founder, is the locals' Kim Il-sung.
I'm pretty damn good with an Allen key.
Until they realise they have to purchase a separate Allen key.
Another displays a humble Allen key, giver of life to flat-pack furniture.
The rear wheel comes off by popping off one connector and removing the axle through-bolt with an Allen key.
The vital tool, though, is not an Allen key but the Kunskapsporten ("Knowledge Portal"), a website containing the entire syllabus.
Sydoriak hands me a new brake cable, some wire cutters and an Allen key; I get to work.
Included is a unit and flask, 5ml bottle of essential oil, a tealight candle, glass plate and an allen key.
If properly tightened with the Allen key provided, I have found these products to be very sturdy.
Talk has drifted from the lack of Ribena on the rider to the need to find a precision allen key.
