Posting questions on different forums.

[Bob Parmenter]

Funny how that works huh?

[firebird77clone]

I guess I got lucky and found this forum first.

I can appreciate that someone might need the answer quick, and that would mean posting multiple sites. Also, there exists that fact that you CAN get TWO differing answers, and they BOTH be right. More than one way to skin a cat mantra.

In the 'real world' I have been guilty of asking multiple people the same question. Not necessarily that I didn't believe the first answer, just that the first answer didn't offer explanation in the depth which I was seeking. None the less, it CAN piss people off.

with the 'gentle' guidance of those at this site, I have learned to differentiate what I 'have done' vs. what I 'think' can be done when I post replies. Some of the stuff I have done is good wrenchin, some of it was shade tree. Inexperience ,poverty, and laziness would explain most of the shadetree, but even so... some of that was good wrenching too.

Sometimes it's a matter of challenging yourself to spend the most money possible to do a particular job, other times the challenge is to make the repair for nothing. Each has its merit, and its time and place.

[stovens]

Firebird clone well said. When I bought my truck, I thought yeah put in a new battery crank her up and run her until it dies. Then I started fixing stuff, and realized the more I fixed, the more it made sense to do other stuff, the safer the truck would be. Next thing I knew project special k was born. All in all, I want to be able to have a nice looking hot rod when I'm done. This site was the first to jump in and help, without an attitude. I also consider it home, and feel I've met some good friends here. I use a ford site for stock 48 ford questions, and on specific aftermarket hot rod stuff for the truck, as 6-12 people over there help and have been there done that.
This is the only site I have a tee shirt for!

[hotroddaddy]

Its funny cause even though your donsrods everywhere else, i stil refer to you as itoldyouso. that one kinda stuck.

[willowbilly3]

I pretty much surf different forums for the reasons Maddog mentions. I get bored real fast, so I keep checking out the different ones to see what's shakin'.

Each forum has a different feel and pace. Some don't have much going on so you have to check back from time to time to see if anything new has been posted, on others you have to go down through the threads to see if you missed anything because they move along so fast.

I've always considered CHR my home forum though, mainly because it was the first one I joined, and I feel I have a lot of friends here. Not to say the other forums aren't great, but I just started here so I check this one first every day. I also tend to stay on forums where the tone is friendly and helpful, versus ones that are confrontational and somewhat cold.

Don

Don, I'm the same way. It is really amusing what a range of answers you get when you ask the same question on 3 different forums.