{"id":4849,"date":"2011-01-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:48:50","slug":"steel-spring-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/steel-spring-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Spring Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to spring hooks by a repair technician at work around 10 years ago. He was using the tool to get into tight spaces on check processing equipment and gave me one as he thought I&#8217;d find it handy around the house. <\/p>\n<p>The tool is quite simple. It&#8217;s an eleven-inch stainless steel rod with a 90-degree hook at the end. I found it useful for any task in tight places requiring force to be exerted with precision. I used it for a few years before it died of natural causes and I then found a supplier and bought half a dozen; they were only a few dollars each at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I spread the new supply around the house in the kitchen, office, as well as my workshop and I was surprised to find my wife using them more than I. She&#8217;s used them for sewing projects to thread elastic through a waistband, for craft projects to guide the placement of small parts, and for her own forays into light equipment repair.<\/p>\n<p>I find this tool uniquely capable of getting into tight spaces where no other tool can go making it one of the most versatile tools I own. It is sold in various configurations by numerous suppliers, but the 11&#8243; version I was given years ago has proven most useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crafty stainless steel hook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10807,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/10807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}