Please tell us WHO you are, WHAT you do, & WHY you want to know!
![pub]()
Abstract Questions can be boring and are 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 a 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 went south. If potential helpers 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 to 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 incompatible with camaraderie! Ever since its founding in 1989, a basic aim of this forum has been to be a place of camaraderie & warm aloha for anyone with an interest in metal finishing. So, apologies, but postings with missing/fictitious names are sometimes discarded; when we're busy we focus on flesh & blood people and their problems.
If your company doesn't allow public postings, feel free to anonymously read everything here ... but please retain a consultant for confidential help. Posting fictitious info poisons the well of civil discourse, and you shouldn't do it for a corporation which is both unwilling to share anything and unwilling to pay for confidential help :-)