Completing posts

One way might be to add 'let us know how you get on' to the end of some of our posts!

Neil

Hi All,

Some very interesting points have come up here

A Even though I may not get the answer to my question [I usually do ],still the amount of know-how I pick up makes it worth while to ask,in the first place. At times the tread tends to drift [like in a pub near closing time ],but still it,s worth reading. I recall one tread some time ago went way off the rails altogether,I forget what it started as,but it ended up talking about sheep on the hills !,and that did not take place in a pub!

As regards people saying Thanks for your help/time,dont hold your breath.I have lost count of the number of times I have obliged people [word gets around if you have a workshop] without getting a word of thanks. It,s as though that,s what you,re there for. My friend say,s I should just tell them to "Go Away",or words to that effect. Perhaps I should but sometimes the job is interesting.Strange thing is that they never ask about the cost of any material used !

To sum up,a simple word of thanks goes a long way,on the Forum or in the shop and is always appreciated. I hope I am never found guilty in this respect,since I have a great deal still to learn and access to good teachers.

My Thanks to all of you.

Or if starting a thread asking for help just sing of with "Thanks in advance"

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In the tradition of FWIW and WHS ... may we abbreviate that to LUKHYGO

MichaelG.

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Edit: I've just searched for LUKHYGO

... and discovered that it is already in use on some forums.

... such is my naïvité in these matters 

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 17/02/2018 10:32:45

Posted in wrong place

Edited By Brian Wood on 17/02/2018 11:09:29

Michael,

Indeed you are right, I missed the significance of that-----sorry Les

Brian

Robbo and David George 1 make valid points, particularly Robbo, from personal experience. He provided invaluable help in sorting one of my recent queries by PM. I hope I that I thanked him but it was also via PM and would not have appeared on the forum thread. So, "Guilty, as charged, M'lud" but belated PUBLIC acknowledgement of his (and others' ) help with obtaining D-W mill info.

rgds

Bill

Edited By Cornish Jack on 17/02/2018 12:15:10

It was not lack of thanks that annoys me. (D.A.G did thank people for their help) It was the fact that he did not say exactly where the fault was and possibly take a picture of it so that it would help others with that lathe. Dave (SillyOldDuffer) went to the trouble of opening up his lathe and taking pictures to help D.A.G.. I would expect him to do something that would help others in the future.

Les.

Edited By Les Jones 1 on 17/02/2018 13:00:06

Edited By Les Jones 1 on 17/02/2018 13:01:07

The ones that annoy me (not on this forum as far as I know), are the ones that PM me saying I'm a final year mechanical engineering student at XYZ university and I have be asked to build a Stirling Engine. Why is he an engineering student if he can't come up with a design, my first Stirling engine was built to my design after reading a bit in Model Engineer, until then I had no idea of the workings of such a motor. Perhaps this is why I tend to distrust engineers from this country, and it's not China, or Africa.

Ian S C

LUKHYGO ??

Ok I give in, can't find it in a google search, what does it mean?

Regards

Lofty

Really?

looks to me that Michael didn't know either

Edited By Billy Bean on 18/02/2018 11:02:07

Edited By Billy Bean on 18/02/2018 11:06:39

I think (and hope) I have always posted my thanks on here for help and advice I’ve received, but with one exception - a very helpful forum member loaned me an engine hoist to help with getting my mill from my van to standing vertically on terra firma. While I obviously thanked him in person both when I picked it up and when I returned it, I felt it may not be helpful to post my thanks publicly on here in case he was subsequently inundated with people asking for favours. I’m still not sure it was the correct thing to do! Not only did I get the loan of an engine crane, but also a guided tour of his workshop, an introduction to his friendly dog and an interesting chat.

Duh, many thanks, brain in neutral