{"id":2380,"date":"2017-02-06T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2017-02-06T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:00:14","slug":"throwback-bad-machining-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/throwback-bad-machining-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: Bad Machining Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a look back at a post from <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2016\/02\/01\/bad-machining-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a year ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When I first bought my tools, at the start of my first semester of automotive school, I got a whole bunch of Snap-On stuff. I didn&#8217;t know that much about tools at the time, so for a while I thought this was on purpose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_02_01_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_02_01_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my set of combination wrenches, 10 to 19mm, the 19mm box end was just round. For longest time, at least a year, I thought it was on purpose, though I had no idea why it would be. Then at school I noticed a classmate&#8217;s set of Snap-On wrenches all had properly machined box ends, so I got a replacement from the local Snap-On guy, and managed to keep the old one. I&#8217;m not sure how a wrench could miss that portion of the machining process, but it&#8217;s a cool thing to have.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a look back at a post from a year ago. When I first bought my tools, at the start of my first semester of automotive school, I got a whole bunch of Snap-On stuff. I didn&#8217;t know that much about tools at the time, so for a while I thought this was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,61,63,70],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-snap-on","tag-throwback","tag-tools","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}