{"id":20,"date":"2026-02-19T03:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/?p=20"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:47:26","slug":"a-new-roller-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/2026\/02\/19\/a-new-roller-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"A new roller hook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Kelsey 9&#215;13 press was missing one roller hook, and another was pretty bent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought that I might be able to straighten the bent one enough to get it off the roller arms. How hard can it be to unbend a 1\/4&#8243; steel rod? With little to leverage it against, pretty darn difficult!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ended up tapping the bent arm through the roller arm gently with  a hammer. As it worked it&#8217;s way through the holes, it partially straightened out, and I finished the job in a bench vise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make a new hook, I picked up some round steel stock at the hardware store. I bent it in the bench vise, leaving a generous amount on both ends, then created a loop that I crushed in the vise until the inside diameter matched the others. Then I cut both ends to length, and adjusted the angle of the hook end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/new-hook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/new-hook.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/new-hook-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I touched up the inside diameter of the hook using a rotary tool, and used a collet to keep the spring in place, since I did not thread the straight end for a nut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was missing a spring, and did not find an exact match at the hardware store. I was also having trouble getting the tension right with the original springs, and I suspect the heavy rust on the springs affected their elasticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, I replaced all four springs with new matching ones, and used spacers to help get the tension right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/roller_hooks_adjusted.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/roller_hooks_adjusted.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/roller_hooks_adjusted-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which I fabricate an important missing piece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedesantis.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}