{"id":1292,"date":"2018-02-17T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/three-jaw-brace\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T04:21:49","slug":"three-jaw-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/three-jaw-brace\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Jaw Brace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever have to fight with a thirty foot cord on a cold day? This tool has no cord. And no batteries. No worry about theft, obsolescence, charging. Imagine being able to remove #4 Phillips screws, long embedded with their heads effectively stripped before they were painted over. By hand. The same tool, with a &#8220;no moving parts&#8221; adapter, is a speed wrench for 3\/8&#8243; drive sockets. And you can use 1\/4&#8243; hex bits as well.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000JRFJQO\/cooltools-20\">traditional hand brace<\/a> does all this, and weighs less than a commercial-duty battery pack. That&#8217;s why I  have two old braces in my on-site tool kit, where I do a vast array of kludge-like repairs to building systems &#8212; everything from removing the third set of windows in a building&#8217;s life, to re-hanging wood and steel doors (remember those stripped, self-tapping, Phillips screws?), boring holes to run a fish-tape through, and taking mechanical stuff apart.<\/p>\n<p>It will accept traditional square-taper auger bits, and with its three jaw chuck, any round or hex shank tool up to about 15 mm (9\/16&#8243;) diameter. This, together with two power tools &#8212; a 25-year-old Black and Decker screw gun, and a Makita 7 1\/4&#8243; circular saw &#8212; makes my tool kit.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human-powered driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1449],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}