{"id":5587,"date":"2024-04-25T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T07:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:49:46","slug":"fickle-gate-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5587","title":{"rendered":"Fickle gate motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our main driveway gate motor went intermittent. It would always open, but sometimes not close. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/percussive_maintenance\">Percussive maintenance<\/a> mostly worked as a short-term fix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GateMotorSolderFail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GateMotorSolderFail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They do that.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:72,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wiktionary.org\\\/wiki\\\/percussive_maintenance&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307103228\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wiktionary.org\\\/wiki\\\/percussive_maintenance&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 16:13:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-05 19:00:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 05:03:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-14 03:08:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-19 09:53:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-22 21:08:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 07:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 07:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our main driveway gate motor went intermittent. It would always open, but sometimes not close. Percussive maintenance mostly worked as a short-term fix. They do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}