{"id":7516,"date":"2012-11-16T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2013-01-22T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:43:00","slug":"black-and-decker-gyro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/black-and-decker-gyro\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and Decker Gyro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gyro is a cordless electric screwdriver that uses your hand motion to drive its motor either clockwise or counterclockwise. I bought mine impulsively while gathering materials to install a bathroom ceiling fan last month. It seemed like a nice high tech take on the old battery-operated screwdriver. I never thought those had enough torque, or held a battery charge long enough. Worst case? This would become a gift for my gadget-hound father.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great little addition to my toolbox. It works as advertised: grip the handle to activate the sensors, and then turn the body of the screwdriver in the direction that you want the screw (or nut, or drillbit) to turn.<\/p>\n<p>I used it to install two bathroom vent fans and their ductwork. I used it to drill pilot holes, loosen switchplates and old switches, to connect ductwork with self-tapping screws, and to install the new switches and switchplates. It worked great. Then I assembled a set of drawers from Ikea, and it still doesn&#8217;t need recharging.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s smaller than a \u00a0cordless drill, strong enough to do real work, and easy on the hands doing repetitive tightening of screws. I&#8217;m keeping mine, and sending another to my dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handy screwdriver, not a sandwich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516"}],"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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9191,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/9191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}