{"id":149,"date":"2009-10-27T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T11:56:53","slug":"topping-off-the-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/topping-off-the-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"topping off the striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_4935\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/4048949766\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2734\/4048949766_4c3bc6ef9f_m.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4935\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> Here&#8217;s how I added some padding to the top of the &#8220;striker&#8221; part of the hi-striker. I picked up a used tire from my local mechanic and managed to cut a couple of rectangular pieces out of the tread. After some trial and error I found the best way to cut through a tire with steel radials is with a sabre saw with a metal cutting blade. The shop stunk like burning rubber but it cut pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_4936\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmillerid\/4048950086\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2547\/4048950086_43900c57db.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4936\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used the nailgun with some trim nails to tack two layers onto the striker. It can probably use some trimming on the corners, but it will do the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I added some padding to the top of the &#8220;striker&#8221; part of the hi-striker. I picked up a used tire from my local mechanic and managed to cut a couple of rectangular pieces out of the tread. After some trial and error I found the best way to cut through a tire with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[3,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmillerid.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}