I will have to read that one Andy. No judgement.
I suspect that curious question gets silently asked from quite a few of us here.
I get irked when someone says such and such part or machine is crap without first hand backup information as to why.
It is usually obvious when they are regurgitating 3rd hand from Cousin Bubba's girl friend's Uncle.
I haven't had a subscription in quite a while except for Engine Pro, Racetech and a couple of other industry mags.
Most of the car mags we grew up with follow a pattern and after a while they all seem to be a vicious circle of rewrites. Same stuff, different name and date.
Old age and DejaVu if you will
Agree that the internet is great. I used to have file cabinets full of notes.
All transcribed to the computer now.
At least the ones that haven't become outdated.
Catalogs are all PDFs these days. Love that.
I am lousy with wood but youtube held my hand through some house upgrades.
I still hate wood but I did get to buy more Dewalt tools.
When I got my first CNC machine I thought I knew what I was getting into. Nope.
Thought I knew machining but CNC is a different world.
Like everything else I had to learn on my own I just had to make expensive mistakes on my own stuff until it fell into place.
Some good youtube guys out there willing to show and tell. Just gotta dig for it.
Actually I might not have made the jump without first looking through youtube for the possibilities.
Speedtalk: Some of the in depth tech is still good for a mind trip. It was better a few years ago. Times change. Participants change.
All the above: Just have to soak it in, weed through it and use/try what is logical.