{"id":52806,"date":"2026-07-14T19:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52806"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:39:42","slug":"autos-a-use-for-an-old-set-of-encyclopedias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/autos-a-use-for-an-old-set-of-encyclopedias\/","title":{"rendered":"Autos: a use for an old set of encyclopedias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about working on cars: the tutor mentions an improvisation.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is by my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\n\nAs I&#8217;ve mentioned numerous times, for instance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?s=decluttering\">here<\/a>, we are decluttering right now. To what end I&#8217;m not sure, but it needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other day I came upon, buried in a shelf, an old set of encyclopedias &#8211; decades old. It seems unlikely anyone will want them, so I wondered what to do with them. A day later I had a solution.<\/p>\n<p>\nWorking on the van, it seems I run into the problem that the jackstands on hand are too tall for it. I&#8217;ve used wooden blocks up until now, but I might experiment with a stack of encyclopedias. The advantage they offer, as I see it, is that adjusting the height will be easy, since one can just add or subtract one or two from the stack as appropriate. Plus, they&#8217;re nice and wide, so should be quite stable.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not recommending this to anyone, but I&#8217;m planning to try it 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 working on cars: the tutor mentions an improvisation. The following is by my understanding. As I&#8217;ve mentioned numerous times, for instance here, we are decluttering right now. To what end I&#8217;m not sure, but it needs to be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/autos-a-use-for-an-old-set-of-encyclopedias\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autos: a use for an old set of encyclopedias<\/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":[188],"tags":[4201,4341],"class_list":["post-52806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autos","tag-decluttering","tag-encylopedias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806","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=52806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52807,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806\/revisions\/52807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}