Please tell us WHO you are, WHAT you do, & WHY you want to know!
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Abstract Questions are often boring and easily misinterpreted. So, pretty please, with sugar on it—
- Spend time on your question. Tell us whether you're a 3rd grader or post‐doc, a hobbyist or pro, working on a watch dial or a Winnebago, doing one for yourself or millions in a factory, a new process not yet successful, or something you've done for years that suddenly went south. If a potential helper can't start except by composing a list of "ifs-ands-&-buts", few will.
- Not "What happens if?", but what are you actually experiencing?
- Tell us something we don't know! Say "my formula of so & so gives such‐&‐such a problem", not "I want the best formula".
- Interesting questions get answered! Say "I have a brass trunk from an ancestor's sea voyage …", not "How do I clean brass?". Say "I need the lugs nuts from my '55 Belair show car chrome plated", not "What shop does chrome?".
- Include a photo/sketch if you can.
- A pic of yourself encourages responses by personalizing things.
- Hurried postings must be set aside for editing — and sometimes they get buried under new mail.
- Anonymity is not compatible with camaraderie! Ever since its founding in 1989, a basic aim of this forum has been to be a place of camaraderie and warm aloha for those with an interest in metal finishing.
Apologies, but postings with missing or fictitious names, cities, or e‐mail addresses are sometimes discarded. If your company doesn't allow public postings, please feel free to anonymously read everything here ... but to retain a consultant when confidential help is needed.
Please try to appreciate that posting fictitious info poisons the well of civil discourse which we're trying to drink from.