{"id":3769,"date":"2018-01-29T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2018-01-29T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T11:00:33","slug":"modifying-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/29\/modifying-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Modifying Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a slow day at work I was doing some sweeping around the shop, and on different sides of the shop I found two cut off open end wrenches. Apparently two different techs really needed slightly shorter wrenches for whatever they were doing and decided sacrificing an open end was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3770\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018_01_29_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_01_29_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While there are countless special tools sold for those hard to reach bolts, and many lengths of wrenches, sometimes you can&#8217;t get quite what you need. I haven&#8217;t had to do this myself, but if I felt I had to I&#8217;d rather get a cheap set of wrenches to do it to instead of my Snap-On or Gearwrench ones. There haven&#8217;t been any times I&#8217;ve needed to modify other tools, but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll happen sometime in my career.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your take on this? Have you had to chop a wrench in half to get into a tight space? Leave me a comment on this post or on my social media.<\/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>During a slow day at work I was doing some sweeping around the shop, and on different sides of the shop I found two cut off open end wrenches. Apparently two different techs really needed slightly shorter wrenches for whatever they were doing and decided sacrificing an open end was worth it.<\/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":[63],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","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=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}