{"id":33335,"date":"2019-04-24T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33335"},"modified":"2019-04-05T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T21:03:28","slug":"loosen-plier-joints-with-valve-grinding-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/loosen-plier-joints-with-valve-grinding-compound\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosen Plier Joints with Valve Grinding Compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how good pliers are made (rivet joints and box joints) so that they don&#8217;t seize up immediately. One extra whack of the big factory hammer seems to me like it&#8217;d wreck most efforts to make a good pair of pliers, or almost anything with a similar joint. They usually seem to get it close enough though, so good on &#8217;em. <\/p>\n<p>Too many pliers at the stores are packaged so you can&#8217;t really get a good feel for the condition of a tool&#8217;s joint before you walk away (with it or without). I&#8217;ve got a few pliers with silky joints, and they&#8217;re an absolute pleasure to use. I&#8217;ve had (past tense!) some with sorta sticky joints that were more than a little irritating to use. I&#8217;ve had a few that were pretty well stuck, and so got zero use.<br \/>\nBreaking them in just didn&#8217;t seem to be worth the effort. <\/p>\n<p>Bought another German pair around Christmas, mail order, good sale price. Too sticky to use. Dang. So I checked the solution machine at YouTube and got this: <\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_20153\"  width=\"480\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5QijMR8LLWM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002UEOMS\/cooltools-20\">Permatex compound<\/a> ($5), some WD40, not a whole lot of work, and Bang! All my previously irritating pliers are silky! I&#8217;ve even picked up some truly rusty old abused pliers at Flea Markets and now they&#8217;re silky too. Last weekend I found a pair of Kraeuter pliers (a model last made in 1921) and, after some restoration work, they may be better than new. The process is cheap, only a little bit messy and easy to clean up. Rescue those pliers! Oh, and that new German pair (from NWS) is now terrific! <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula for silky pliers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335"}],"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=33335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33339,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions\/33339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}