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

[Phil Waterman]

Moderator's note: these posts were split off Chevrolet C8 1940 Cab 11 restoration, The Netherlands:


Hi Alex

Excellent how to on one of the most common CMP restoration problems. Your posts are an example of helpful restoration tips that could be stand alone Restoration threads to make them easy to search and find.

Again well done.

Cheers Phil

Checking a search phrase HOWTOWELDNUT howto

[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.