{"id":406,"date":"2009-07-17T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-09-08T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T16:10:34","slug":"repairing-my-ball-joint-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/repairing-my-ball-joint-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing my ball joint press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bent my Harbor freight ball joint press while pressing in the bottom joint.  I did not notice that it got a little crooked and I kept pressing.  I should have pressed it back out and started over, but I kept going.  I hoped just a little more pressure would straighten it out.  It did, but my press frame bent in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Despite assurances by my millwright friend that it could never be brought back to parallel, I was able to straighten the c clamp in my Dad&#8217;s press.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_3215.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_3215-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Using a press to fix a press\" title=\"Repairing Ball Joint Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_3215-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_3215-1024x760.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using a press to fix a press<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>I pressed each end slightly and measured the distance between the two sides of the press.  I had to over compress a bit as it would spring back slightly when released.  I suspect it has lost some strength in all the bending but I think it will still be strong enough to do the other two ball joints if I am careful.  If not, Harbor Freight has them on sale now.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bent my Harbor freight ball joint press while pressing in the bottom joint. I did not notice that it got a little crooked and I kept pressing. I should have pressed it back out and started over, but I kept going. I hoped just a little more pressure would straighten it out. It did, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/repairing-my-ball-joint-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Repairing my ball joint press&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,35],"tags":[194,516,195,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}