Hi Guys!
I am JUST getting to the water cooler.. as I have been pouring over all th e other threads for some time now, including before I posted and or registered first.
I have to agree that the "Noobs".... not people who are new... but Noobs being the slang term... Are completely aggrivating.
I was/am a long time member of the RX-7 forum. Its called THE RX-7 forum because its the oldest and largest.. and I think it was the largest automotive forum for a very long time.
I got to a point that I only posted anr or answered questions in the more technical sub forums, because soo many of the posters were simply wandering around and posting to see that people replied to them. They would post the "I wanna" "Im Gonna" And "Can I" posts.. that were completely bizarre. And if they were actually serious.. and had enough skill or money.. would make some interesting end projects. But of course most were early Teenagers, or mid 20 year olds acting like teenagers.
The biggest problem as mentioned above are the "I want X amount of horsepower" how do I do it? And then you explain it in great detail for the 100th time.. and they say.. Nah Im gonna go get a (Different car inserted here) instead..... In which case you realise they dont even have a RX-7.
After a while you begin to see who pays attention to teh answers, and who is simply posting to see thier name on the board.. or up thier post count or something. And you start not replying to the people who dont bother to listen to some "wise" words of experience.
Here... Im just about as new as they come.
And I have to say.. I truly appreciate all the answers I have gotten, and or asked in ignorance. Many things I have searched for.. .made some of my own tools.. and suffer from "I wanna make X" syndrome. And when I ask a question.. I often am asking (As I gather you all know) because Im trying to achieve that goal.
A Lot of the things Im doing now.. I never thought of trying until I came here

(Light Pull anyone?)
BUT I wanted to say thanks to you all. I get a LOT of questions when I look at thnigs on the board here... and the vast majority of the posters who are building things, are taking pictures, and explaining things.. and the answers become evident as the project progresses.
PS: OH YEAH!! Searches!!! Search for Ball Turner on Google.. and or Youtube. 99 percent of them are the Steve Bedair style ones. I never even saw other types till I learned to search for Radius tool, and other variants. My biggest problem I run into searching when in the complete New state... I often dont know what it is Im asking about LOL.
My father is a 35 Year Military Vet. Retired Colonel. Masters in Aviation Psychology, Masters in Mathmatics, and Masters in International Relations, as well as West Point Graduate, Army War college, Ohio State, etc etc etc.. Taught at west point even. Was at Pearl Harbor, and everythign till the Mid 70s as a Pilot.
HE was famous for telling me to go look up a word in the dictionary when I didnt know how to spell it. And it was usually only the really odd words that were spelled NOTHING like it sounds.
Searching for technical stuff like we have here is often like that.
Thankfully, we have people here who worked a career in the field, and although we have DROs, and things to do the math for us.. there is often a trick the machinists used, that is common sense... ..... if you know the trick.
Anyhow.. Thanks again!
