{"id":62,"date":"2008-08-25T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/?p=62"},"modified":"2011-02-20T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T20:20:24","slug":"why-wont-my-ratchet-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Why won&#8217;t my ratchet work ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div style=\"center;\">There are all kinds of tools but I post quite a bit about socket wrench drive tools (ratchets etc). I wouldn&#8217;t have written about any for a while but the latest specimen from the flea market was in\u00a0 such deplorable condition that I couldn&#8217;t help myself.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The crud buildup and rust was so thorough that WD-40 or Liquid Wrench would have been useless.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-62];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney2-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Before\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney2-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney2.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Instead I used a mixture of 2 parts motor oil and 1 part acetone. A wire wheel took care of some stubborn buildup on the drive plug assembly and I used a scriber to clean out the gear teeth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney31.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-62];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney31-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"After\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney31-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney31.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_61\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney1.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-62];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney1-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"Ready\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney1-300x116.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bonney1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all kinds of tools but I post quite a bit about socket wrench drive tools (ratchets etc). I wouldn&#8217;t have written about any for a while but the latest specimen from the flea market was in\u00a0 such deplorable condition that I couldn&#8217;t help myself. The crud buildup and rust was so thorough that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,45],"tags":[12,85],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ratchets-tools","category-restoration","tag-ratchets","tag-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}