{"id":49815,"date":"2025-07-27T19:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49815"},"modified":"2025-07-27T19:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:27:37","slug":"mechanics-unsticking-the-bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-unsticking-the-bolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanics: unsticking the bolt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about mechanics: the tutor mentions success removing a stuck bolt.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-a-rounded-stuck-bolt-part-1\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> I mention a very difficult bolt that was so stuck, I rounded its corners trying to remove it. Next, I had to file edges back on said bolt, afterwards continuing to work toward its removal.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the end, I did remove the bolt, through a combination of applying WD-40, knocking it with a chisel (another recommendation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R5d0Bgvjmlk\">Ultimate Handyman<\/a>), and hammering the end of a wrench whose other end was on the bolt. The process took a very long time; I wondered whether it would ever work. Yet, indeed, it finally did.<\/p>\n<p>The bolt was in surprisingly good shape, when it finally came out.<\/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 mechanics: the tutor mentions success removing a stuck bolt. In yesterday&#8217;s post I mention a very difficult bolt that was so stuck, I rounded its corners trying to remove it. Next, I had to file edges back on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-unsticking-the-bolt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanics: unsticking the bolt<\/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":[3726],"class_list":["post-49815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-stuck-bolt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815","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=49815"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49821,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions\/49821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}