{"id":7502,"date":"2015-03-05T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=7502"},"modified":"2015-03-05T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:24:16","slug":"keep-it-locked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/keep-it-locked\/","title":{"rendered":"KEEP IT LOCKED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/news_frost_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7531\" title=\"news_frost_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/news_frost_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Wire-locking of nuts and bolts is the norm for safety-critical assembles on many vintage, classic, race and kitcars.<\/p>\n<p>These safety wire Twisting Pliers from Frost Automotive Restoration make the job much easier, compared to regular pliers, which require manual twisting, taking take time and effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Frost items require a simple \u2018one pull\u2019 action and automatically return thus twisting wire quickly into a strand that won&#8217;t unravel. The pliers feature a built-in wire cutter, too.<\/p>\n<p>To remove the newly twisted wire, clasp the pliers firmly and slide-up the centre-locking mechanism. To make the job even more efficient frost also sell a handy nut drilling jig (\u00a329.50) and bolt drilling tool (\u00a321)\u00a0to make the necessary hole in the nut or bolt. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001fXUkpjRVw8D7RVjWWVGYDZm4pU0q7r_XhKI1Oy-_BYVrPN1vnS9anpupL5ZqlcFbXky9JGLUU4N6Qv3CKdmcMR3H76JRB4hDM-C4odShw_qbsMz6GRLguPWWiH0HBr5KRyAx6j4_clWxRXNC8ljnU8cgn-IJJCITAHncFG5sVT-vRk68qumZ8fKBkjKFLKet9Ql8RQJ-CvUC0uKyvp984Dy9HDC8mPkJhAC1_BCGoIcDBEykz72cbPk0zcCMoWB3LF0-J1al8j8JGnpY4U3_9qoSViH6wFZDxeWi3A9pkenYhU0wc3DU7nKjpAEwot9coeT8HcYHxFCeWImYhp7AFAL_kt_6XWmk&amp;c=rNvooU2WJ42BTU5l6zq3uBTYYVWNpW_lbNHGvb7JCdJmG93XODYqYw==&amp;ch=blMyQ9_HUdXSUBKeVaee1E4vqAvXb34cUC8i2sHCAz2sONz4EH_TOw==\" target=\"_blank\">0.8mm stainless steel locking wire<\/a> (from \u00a32.75) is then used to complete the wire-locked assembly. Simple as that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Frost\u2019s Twisting Pliers cost just \u00a321.60 inc VAT with more information on this and all the company\u2019s many, many indispensable products via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frost.co.uk\">www.frost.co.uk<\/a> <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wire-locking of nuts and bolts is the norm for safety-critical assembles on many vintage, classic, race and kitcars. These safety wire Twisting Pliers from Frost <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/keep-it-locked\/\" title=\"KEEP IT LOCKED\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}