{"id":1883,"date":"2016-10-31T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2016-10-31T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:00:13","slug":"found-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/31\/found-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Found Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I keep my toolbox organized is so I can easily tell if I&#8217;m missing a tool. I&#8217;ve only lost three tools, but they weren&#8217;t anything too important, and two I got for free so it was no real loss. I have found several tools left in cars, however.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1886\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_31_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_31_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I found a 90-degree screwdriver tool in my car. I&#8217;d dropped a nut onto the splash shields under the engine, and when I hit them to knock it out, the screwdriver fell out too. I also found a pair of needle-nose pliers under the hood of my car after I bought it.<\/p>\n<p>I found a razor-blade scraper and a utility knife in piles of junk around the shop, and I found the Snap-on tool and Matco screwdriver under the hood of a customer car. I once found a pair of vise-grips clamped onto a tie rod, but I knew based on service history that they were left there by another tech in my shop, so I was able to give them back.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I keep my toolbox organized is so I can easily tell if I&#8217;m missing a tool. I&#8217;ve only lost three tools, but they weren&#8217;t anything too important, and two I got for free so it was no real loss. I have found several tools left in cars, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,57,63],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-car","tag-matco","tag-snap-on","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}