{"id":615,"date":"2008-05-20T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2008-05-21T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T15:20:51","slug":"a96-channel-lock-pliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"#a96 – Craftsman adjustable pliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ENLARGE\"<\/a>I love the Sears Crafstman<\/a> tool guarantee. It’s simple: break it and they’ll replace it.For the rest of your life. Period.<\/p>\n

I bought these adjustable pliers a good 25-some years ago, sildenafil<\/a> when I was spending hours at a time lying on my back under a filthy Volvo. Cursing. A lot …<\/p>\n

These pliers outlasted that cursed piece-of-shit vehicle, as they did the Celica and the Saab<\/a> and countless misbegotten bike repairs, because they’re the real thing: An unstoppable, unkillable, invaluable hand tool.<\/p>\n

You can open them up to more than 6 inches, close them down to a pincer-grip for the tiniest of things, hammer in and yank out nails, and generally wrench balky metal into compliance.<\/p>\n

The fine coating of rust is a badge of pride. They’re good for changing oil, cranking recalcitrant nuts and general all-round wrenching – versatile, tough, beautiful and endlessly interested in the world all around.<\/p>\n

Of course, stripping fasteners is part of the job – grab too hard and the tool’s hardened-steel teeth chew up bolts, screws, anything you use the tool for – sometimes to the point of rendering the fastener useless and requiring plan B – a hacksaw.<\/p>\n

If you think like adjustable pliers, every problem looks like a nut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the Sears Crafstman tool guarantee. It’s simple: break it and they’ll replace it.For the rest of your life. Period. I bought these adjustable pliers a good 25-some years ago, sildenafil when I was spending hours at a time lying on my back under a filthy Volvo. Cursing. A lot …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,6,13,4,11,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-instrument","category-jetsam","category-objet","category-part","category-symbol","category-tool","category-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}