{"id":70,"date":"2015-09-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.wordpress.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:00:00","slug":"using-tools-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/21\/using-tools-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Tools Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like doing things right. That means that I want to use tools the right way. I don&#8217;t like using cheater bars on wrenches, though once in a while I will if there&#8217;s no other way to get enough torque. There&#8217;s also that trick with linking two combination wrenches. I don&#8217;t like that, and one of my teachers did that and it put little dents in my wrenches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_09_21_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_09_21_01.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"2015_09_21_01\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A big one for me is chrome sockets on impact tools. Regular sockets, chrome sockets, are made differently than impact sockets, which are also usually thicker. I haven&#8217;t witnessed it myself, but any decent tool company will tell you to never use chrome sockets with impact tools, because they could shatter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_09_21_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015_09_21_02.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"2015_09_21_02\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one time I allowed myself to use something non-impact on an impact tool was when I didn&#8217;t have a long enough 1\/2&#8243; drive impact extension to reach the rear engine mount bolts on my Civic. I was very light on the trigger to be careful, and I&#8217;m planning on getting some long impact extensions.<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like doing things right. That means that I want to use tools the right way. I don&#8217;t like using cheater bars on wrenches, though once in a while I will if there&#8217;s no other way to get enough torque. There&#8217;s also that trick with linking two combination wrenches. I don&#8217;t like that, and one [&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":[63],"class_list":["post-70","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\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}