{"id":205,"date":"2019-04-07T18:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=205"},"modified":"2019-04-07T18:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:33:26","slug":"miracle-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Miracle cure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s an old engineering meme about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dullhunk\/7214525854\">wd40 and duct tape.<\/a>  It&#8217;s really true.  The dial mechanism on the rotary gruebox was slow and balky&#8211;running maybe 1\/4 the speed it was supposed to, and one shot of wd40 and it&#8217;s running right as rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GrueBox 2 rotary mechanism fixed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqOtevD82HI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrary to popular myth, wd40 isn&#8217;t a lubricant exactly.  It&#8217;s mostly a solvent with a little bit of lubricant.  The solvent dissolves whatever&#8217;s gumming up the works, and the small shot of lubricant gets it running smoothly again.  It&#8217;s not a replacement for proper lubrication, but it&#8217;s amazing stuff nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old engineering meme about wd40 and duct tape. It&#8217;s really true. The dial mechanism on the rotary gruebox was slow and balky&#8211;running maybe 1\/4 the speed it was supposed to, and one shot of wd40 and it&#8217;s running right as rain. Contrary to popular myth, wd40 isn&#8217;t a lubricant exactly. It&#8217;s mostly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone","category-wetwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}