{"id":375,"date":"2016-01-14T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2016-01-14T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:00:09","slug":"old-ssts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/14\/old-ssts\/","title":{"rendered":"Old SSTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, long before my time at the shop, my dealership used to sell Buicks along with Toyota. A strange combination if you ask me. Relics of that have always been around, one of them being all the old Special Service Tools (SSTs) in one of our tool rooms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-379\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_14_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_14_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most of them hadn&#8217;t been used in years, a lot probably never. One day the shop foreman had me help him clean out the room, and we got rid of probably 90% of the stuff. This is the pile of empty cases to be thrown out when we were done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_14_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_14_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everything that was metal, which was a lot, was put into the scrap pile. Two of those red carts were completely full of all kinds of special odd-shaped pieces of metal and bolts designed for some specific service on some older car that we don&#8217;t work on anymore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_14_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_14_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was able to snag some of the few useful things that we found, and this is pretty much all there was that wasn&#8217;t so special that it was useless. I got a belt tension gauge, blacklight, halogen leak detector, some odd sockets, and a long metal bar that I keep in my car now. The best I got was a pair of Vise-grips with some odd metal welded onto the jaws. I cut the metal off and got a nice pair of Vise-grips for free.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks for reading, and remember to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for notifications of new posts and other pictures.<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, long before my time at the shop, my dealership used to sell Buicks along with Toyota. A strange combination if you ask me. Relics of that have always been around, one of them being all the old Special Service Tools (SSTs) in one of our tool rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}