{"id":49741,"date":"2025-07-18T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49741"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:27:28","slug":"mechanics-yogurt-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-yogurt-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanics: yogurt containers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about modifications: the tutor mentions one to the homemade lifters.<\/h2>\n<p>I mention in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-buying-a-tool-vs-improvising-part-1\/\">my post here<\/a> about some lifters I improvised for vehicles. Trouble was, two people were needed: one to guide while the other drove onto them. Otherwise, the vehicle might drive straight over them.<\/p>\n<p>\nA fix to this turned out to be small yogurt containers. I stacked four, one inside the next, for each lifter, then taped them with duct tape to the top row of the lifter.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, when one reaches the top level of the lifters, one can hear the &#8220;crunch&#8221; of the yogurt containers. Therefore, with the window down, a lone driver can ascend the lifters and know when to stop.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about modifications: the tutor mentions one to the homemade lifters. I mention in my post here about some lifters I improvised for vehicles. Trouble was, two people were needed: one to guide while the other drove onto them. Otherwise, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-yogurt-containers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanics: yogurt containers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[3710],"class_list":["post-49741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-improvisations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49745,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741\/revisions\/49745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}