Spyderman
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| posted on 8/1/04 at 08:00 PM |
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I've had a little play and although interesting I can't see how it will benefit the forum!
Perhaps it's just me being dense!
Terry
Spyderman
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bob
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| posted on 8/1/04 at 10:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hugh Paterson
Bob, u looking ahead to your NEXT project by any chance
Shug.
SHUG
New project,well you never know.
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Mix
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| posted on 27/1/04 at 03:31 PM |
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Found while researching WIKIS
Posted by JoelP
in my opinion, forums are more useful if they have more people on them, assuming there are no tossers on them, which there arent here!
I resemble that remark
Mick
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JoelP
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| posted on 27/1/04 at 05:25 PM |
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i do apologuise mix, one tosser is always welcome. but thats me, so maybe we can stretch armstrong it to 2!?!
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violentblue
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| posted on 22/1/05 at 10:58 PM |
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Just had to bring this up again.
as part of my job I've set up about 20 of these bullitin boards, as well I've just got my second server up and going so to throw annother
forum up would be super easy.
But Steve Grabber has got a forum set up on his page too.
so would this be just redundant or is there a real desire/need for a dedicated 1 off (or prototype) mid-engined forum?
a few pics of my other projects
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robinbastd
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| posted on 22/1/05 at 11:15 PM |
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This little corner of locostbuilders has already established itself as the best part of the best car building forum on the internet.
There's a huge pool of information already on here that would take a long time to amass on a dedicated site. We can pick the brains of hugely
experienced people (I'm thinking of Mark Allanson and the welding advice he gives as an example) who help because we are all part of
locostbuilders,not because we are middybuilders
Good of you to offer,but IMHO it might not be everythingyou/we would want it to be.
I hope I haven't caused any offence,
Ian
Only a dead fish swims with the tide.
http://smuttygifts.com/
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violentblue
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| posted on 22/1/05 at 11:42 PM |
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no offence, I had offered some time ago, but never got a clear answer. Im in a better position to actually create something worthwile now, and wanted
to see if the need and/or desire was out there.
yes this is the best site I've come across for the pool of resource it is, but theres still a number of issues I'd like to deal with, but
maybe I';ll have to build a site to amass this info rather than a forum.
a few pics of my other projects
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RallyHarry
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| posted on 24/1/05 at 05:24 PM |
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This forum is fantastic as it is, but an area within locostbuilders for more extensive tech info would be welcome.
I'd be happy to give suggestions of topics, being in the startup stage myself.
Cheers
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sgraber
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| posted on 24/1/05 at 06:28 PM |
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This forum is far and away the best resource of its kind available anywhere. It's due to the critical mass of quality builders sharing
information.
Adding a "technical resources section" in the form of a Wiki, or whatever, would streamline the search process for accessing the data that
is already available on the site and has typically been posted multiple times.
I need to do some ali annealing for my diffuser. I did a website search and found a number of posts with no useful information at all. But one from
Gusterson stating that he had already posted the information multiple times in the past. Well that wasn't directly the info, but a pointer to
the info, so I did a search for Gusterson, Soap and Annealing. Finally found the info. The information is in there, it just needs to be better
organized...
But I haven't said anything new now have I... 
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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wheelsinsteadofhooves
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| posted on 24/1/05 at 06:58 PM |
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hi - to put in my two ha'pennies i agreee that this forum is hard to beat in terms of overall technical content, its just near impossible to
find sometimes. ive had many google searches return threads from here - everything from audi transaxles to setting up carbs to ideas/designs for pedal
boxes. im tinkering with both a home-build front engined and a (semi home built) middie so my searches tend to be varied, and both subjects lead me
here more often than not.
its the indexing and retrieval of the info thats a bit difficult. often past posts are referred to, but with hundreds of threads under each subject,
and a listing that only allows incremental steps, and goes back to the beginning with one wrong move (yes i know it can be configured differently but
the same issues arise), finding what your after is not always easy. a search or something (within the forum) might help, but im sure there are better
solutions.
it seems a real waste of worldwide expertise, often ammassed through bood sweat and tears, that it is lost so quickly. surely it would be of benefit
to the entire car building community (and motorcycles/restorators etc) if a "knowledge database" were set-up, either as an annex to this
forum or at least collecting the knowledge of such a group of creative minds.
sorry to keep rambling, have been mulling it over for some time and stumbled accross this, which set the cogs in motion again.
atb,
zane
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