{"id":549,"date":"2012-10-29T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totallyshould.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-10-29T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:20:42","slug":"another-soccer-guard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Another soccer guard (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121029-105944.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121029-105944.jpg\" alt=\"20121029-105944.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There it is- the new guard. I haven&#8217;t put it onto a chair yet, but I have a good feeling about it. I think I got things fairly straight. A jig to hold everything during tack welding would have made things go together easier. It also would have been nice of I had been able to mill the edges of the inside edge of where the horizontal tubes come together at 90 degrees. I had to grind off the interfering edges, and any imprecision created a gap that I had to bridge with filler. It&#8217;ll be strong enough, I think, but would have been easier with a nice tight fit all around.<\/p>\n<p>It weighs 10.8 pounds, about two pounds more than the World Cup guard. I don&#8217;t have access to a CAD system that will calculate rotational inertia for me (and I don&#8217;t feel like doing it by hand for), but I suspect that the new design isn&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> as good in that respect. Regardless, this is about $80 worth of steel, compared to $300 for the cheapest commercially available guard. It also has a much more square tip, allowing the player to hit the ball with a spot closer to the end of the guard where the speed is highest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There it is- the new guard. I haven&#8217;t put it onto a chair yet, but I have a good feeling about it. I think I got things fairly straight. A jig to hold everything during tack welding would have made things go together easier. It also would have been nice \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/?p=549\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}