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

[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