{"id":4129,"date":"2018-09-24T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2018-09-24T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:00:41","slug":"when-total-destruction-is-the-only-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/when-total-destruction-is-the-only-option\/","title":{"rendered":"When Total Destruction is the Only Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bolts don&#8217;t always come out. Parts don&#8217;t always want to come off. This happens a lot here in New York, in the rust belt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4130\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018_09_24_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_09_24_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s times like these that the last resort is total destruction. Whether that means the torch, a grinder, or drill, sometimes the only way to get something apart is by destroying it. This particular bolt was holding a piece of trim on the tailgate of an Odyssey. The metal part it screwed into on the plastic trim just started spinning, so I had to put a carbide grinding burr on my die grinder and just cut into it until the bolt head popped off.<\/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=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolts don&#8217;t always come out. Parts don&#8217;t always want to come off. This happens a lot here in New York, in the rust belt.<\/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":[26,55],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-rust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}