How a Captive Nut turned into a How-To-Make-a-How-To-Thread

[Alex van de Wetering]

Thanks Phil!
Yes, I agree...a special area where we can save special techniques and HOW-TO's would be a great addition to the forum, but I guess it all depends on what is possible withing the forum software (?).

I just noticed today that I need to make a few more cages for the front nose panels!

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Yes, I agree...a special area where we can save special techniques and HOW-TO's would be a great addition to the forum, but I guess it all depends on what is possible withing the forum software (?).

I can move your postings into a separate thread on caged nuts in the restoration sub forum. We could mark this type of thread with a "how to" label, or any type of label we can think of - compare with the "for sale", "wanted", etc. labels in the for sale subforum.

Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks,
Hanno

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Hanno

So we don't break the continuity of the original threads can we, just copy them into a "How to" thread?

What ever we do we need to have people really think about Post heading so that it will be an easy searched term. Such as in this case Making Weld Nuts.

Cheers Phil

[Alex van de Wetering]

So we don't break the continuity of the original threads can we, just copy them into a "How to" thread?

Exactly what I was thinking. I am not always a fan of splitting part of a thread into a new thread...or the opposite, merging different threads into one. It does often make info easier accessible, but on the other hand it sometimes breaks the context, making it difficult to read and understand who is responding to what. So, I agree with Phil..maybe we could make a sub-forum only for how-to?.....part of treads copied from somewhere else. But I have no idea if this is possible within the software and if it means loads of extra work for the moderators?

Alex

[cletrac (RIP)]

In Making Weld Nuts the search would only find making. Words need to be 5 letters or more.

[Jordan Baker]

I never use the search feature on MLU because of the word letter count limit. I simply go to Google. Type what I'm looking for followed by ", MLU forum". I can find almost anything I'm looking for.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

One of the no-go's is copying the same information twice on this forum. That would clutter it all up too much - just think about one guy responding to one thread and the next guy to the other. That is why I often clean up and merge threads - to keep info in one place.

Anyone can search this forum for words of a minimum of four letters, or use google. If you add "site:mapleleafup.net" to your search, google will only search for your key words on the mapleleafup.net domain. If I would copy info into separate threads the number of hits on your search would at least double.

Also, anyone with an interesting "how to" subject can post his own new thread adding a link to other threads and vice-versa. So Alex could post his own thread on caged nuts and add a link to his restoration thread, plus the other way around. That would give the readers the context they need.

Lastly, but not unimportantly, copying (parts of) threads can only be done by moderators, which would mean a lot of extra work to be carried out by only very few guys.

So the subject of making captive or caged nuts stays in this thread, or it gets moved to its own thread. Up to you, Alex

PS: do you want me to clean up this thread and move this discussion into it's own thread?

Thanks for the input,
regards,
Hanno