Centec 2B - New arrival and Q&A

NDIY,

I;m with you on this - I can't abide anything to do with YT as it is totally destroying peoples ability to think things through in a logical manner. This, to a large extent, is reflected in the OP's continual grasping for the Holy Grail as his posts show. I never bother to look at any of the self serving BS that is posted on YT - sorry but it is, to my mind, all 'Anti Socia'l Media with a very dark edge to it.

The only way to get knowledge is through reading and applied conceptual thought, we do not 'deep' learn from visuals because the basic thought process has been by passed.

It used to annoy me intensely when I was told that 'presentations' had to be MPP visuals with plenty of pictures and no detailed writing, just straight forward 'non sentences' abbreviated into bullet points. What utter Twaddle! I persisted in writing 'papers' which started with a proposition, examined the caveats, weighed up the competing arguments and delivered a reasoned conclusion. Problem was the majority of graduates were too thick to comprehend what had been written because they lacked the vocabulary of their mother tongue.

Martin

PS I like the analogy!

It helps to have an idea which you tube contributers are genuine craftsmen and who are just being clever for the camera. I can recommend Joe Pieczynski, This old Tony and Abom79, they are amongst the genuine craftsmen that actually educate those of us willing to learn new and improved machining.

Hello all, I wanted to post my results here but it's clear it's not welcome.

I really do thank you all for your advice, it really truly is appreciated. I am merely documenting my hobby and what I am doing on YT and I never have pretended to be anything other than a rote amateur in anything that I have done. I am not trying to give advice or instruct, simply sharing my experience with others.

Clearly, that is anathema to a certain perspective, where the only permissable content is that which is produced by experts.  I truly am sorry that you see no value at all in the additional time I'm spending to create videos for the enjoyment and amusement of others. I do not feel ashamed at all in my efforts to bring what I am doing to a wider audience.  If you feel like you can do it better, please step forward.

I hear a constant bemoaning that engineering is a dying hobby with an aging population - and if this is the reaction to someone who is patently not an expert, does not have an infnite budget in time or money, who is doing their best with the resources available in a medium that is contemporary to them - I can see why.

Edited By William Ayerst on 02/09/2021 13:03:36

Edited By JasonB on 02/09/2021 18:25:50

William,

You may not be trying to, but you need a disclaimer up front stating that clearly. Why else does Mcdonalds have to put a statement on every coffee cup about the contents being hot. Litigation is so much fun for some people.

Please review your Horizontal milling video. It shows things out of sequence, cutters in use , then being fitted (wrong,) then we get the whole vertical head appear to jump forward and you saying something like 'it needs support but there isn't any' which is nonsense, just you messing it up and not showing it being put right.

Ps you are not an amateur if you get a fee.

Dave, You could not be further from the truth. I don't get a fee from anyone, I have no ad revenue, I have no people sending me donations, I have no sponsors or payments from anyone. I do (did?) all of this purely to document what I'm up to for the few people who care to watch me trying to learn what I can for model engineering and it takes SIGNIFICANTLY longer to video than to simply do.

I had written out a longer response but clearly it will fall on deaf ears. I am not sorry that I am making mistakes and I will continue to do so - because I have nobody to teach me, and it's been made clear to me that my questions are no longer welcome here.

Thank you again for your help and support, I don't think I'll be back.