{"id":10765,"date":"2013-03-14T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=10765"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:10:27","slug":"tool-tales-contraption-in-my-dads-tool-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/tool-tales-contraption-in-my-dads-tool-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool Tales: Contraption in My Dad&#8217;s Tool Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this contraption in my dad&#8217;s tool collection after he passed away. He was an electrical engineer\/computer science guy, so I&#8217;m pretty sure it had nothing to do with his work. Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2013\/03\/mystery-tool-big-1.jpg\">Large image 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2013\/03\/mystery-tool-big-2.jpg\">Large image 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has a variety of adjustments and appears to clamp on to a shaft or housing around 3&#8243; in diameter and is approximately 14&#8243; x 9&#8243; overall. It&#8217;s made of cast aluminum with a few steel shafts and plastic handles. The back has some numbers cast in to it, (shown in second image), but no manufacturer or other identifying marks.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Bonus&#8221; label is for when I use it as an extra credit for my technical theatre stagecraft class tool quiz. So far no one has any idea. (Although I give extra credit for creative or entertaining answers.)<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this mystery tool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1449],"tags":[1498],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10773,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}