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Please tell us WHO you are, WHAT you do, & WHY you want to know!

Abstract Questions are often misinterpreted or boring. Pretty please, with sugar on it—

• Spend time on your question. Tell us whether you're a 3rd grader or post‐doc, hobbyist or pro, working on a watch dial or a Winnebago, doing one for yourself or millions in a factory. New process not successful yet, or something you've done for years suddenly went south. If potential helpers can't even start without lots of "ifs, ands, & buts", most won't.
• Not "What happens if?", but what are you 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 are set aside for editing — and sometimes get buried under new mail.
  
  
• Anonymity is incompatible with camaraderie! Apologies, but postings with missing/fictitious names, cities, or e‐mail addresses are discarded. If your company doesn't allow public posts, they should retain a consultant when help is needed. Please don't be an enabler, helping corporations kill the aloha, drive away supporting advertisers, and poison the public discourse with fakery.