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reible wrote:OK I give up!

I have no idea why no one is will to go to the location I posted where it was ask of Nick if the wider belt would work and he gave an answer. Ask where he got his belt, he gave an answer...

I've already posted the lee valley address as well as the other two pertaining to this and yet the confusion goes on????????????

If no one reads my posts and doesn't feel like clicking a link to get the answers then let me know, I have better things to do then searching this stuff out for you.

Now how was that for a RANT.

ED

Ed, I was not ignoring your response or questioning it, I had asked that question of the SS order person BEFORE I started this thread. I figured I'd double-down and if she couldn't (or wouldn't) answer I may get an answer here. I just posted the answer I got back from her because it seemed to contradict what the user's had said.

On another note about the table slot not being big enough for the leather belt (only 1/8"), Nick wasn't using the table when he used the belt anyway...

tom_k/mo wrote: On another note about the table slot not being big enough for the leather belt (only 1/8"), Nick wasn't using the table when he used the belt anyway...

Oh yeah! The table won't fit with that chisel sharpening attachment on. I forgot about that! And it seems so did your 'question answerer'.

This brings another thought or question. If the front of the mouth of the table is widened, why couldn't the table be used to set angles as well as the sharpening attachment?

reible wrote:OK I give up!

I have no idea why no one is will to go to the location I posted where it was ask of Nick if the wider belt would work and he gave an answer. Ask where he got his belt, he gave an answer...

I've already posted the lee valley address as well as the other two pertaining to this and yet the confusion goes on????????????

If no one reads my posts and doesn't feel like clicking a link to get the answers then let me know, I have better things to do then searching this stuff out for you.

Now how was that for a RANT.

ED

It was a great rant, Ed! However misplaced it was. I read your posts, clicked on and read all of the links, and still felt it was incumbent on me to post further to try to answer new questions. I'm sure the others also read your posts and links.

Do your posts, my posts or those from others serve to end conversations on this Forum? I think NOT! If that were true, this would be a most boring forum. Might as well read a book!

Nick replied a bit over a year ago and if you had checked the link you would have seen that... this is all a year or more older information but still valid.

Ed

jpg40504 wrote:Do not think Nick is around often enough to provide a timely reply.

reible wrote:Nick replied a bit over a year ago and if you had checked the link you would have seen that... this is all a year or more older information but still valid.

Ed

THIS IS WHAT WOULD HAVE WORKED!
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=125.

THIS is a useful referral! Google searches? Probably will NOT be taken? More of a past experience(or lack of any!) issue.

i.e. YOU did NOT provide a LINK. You DID point 'over there someplace'. Somewhere the fact that your referral to a response by Nick was PAST TENSE got lost/covered up/over looked/unrecognized/forgotten/(gasp)unread!:) by later 'viewers'.

It is clear I must modify my level of engagement here. I will hence forth let everyone do there own searches and leave whatever was discussed in the past in the past.

For those of you who did read the postings bravo! Those that posted and did not do the reading... you are the ones who are missing out.

Enough said...

Ed

Hi,

I really don't want to have to tell you how to read a thread I hope... you start at the first post then the second then the third and so on.

I was heading out when I posted #2 with the general information on how to
conduct a google seach which is sometimes better then the forums search. Of course I'm sure you are familiar with how this is done.

When I returned in post #4 I post a link to the older thread and indicated if his search had not located the thread that here it was....
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?p=31372&postcount=4
will take you to that post.

So when you are ready to to recant your posting attached just mail it to /dev/null.

It is clear I gave a link and it is clear that the link takes you to the information that was the subject of the thread. And yes you can see the post is old and by definition to reference a post it has to be old then the post.

So remember the mail goes to /dev/null and you can add the attitude.

Any for any others who are not familiar with how forums should work... start a the first posting and read you way in it is the polite way and makes everyone's life a little nicer.

Ed

jpg40504 wrote:THIS IS WHAT WOULD HAVE WORKED!
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=125.

THIS is a useful referral! Google searches? Probably will NOT be taken? More of a past experience(or lack of any!) issue.

i.e. YOU did NOT provide a LINK. You DID point 'over there someplace'. Somewhere the fact that your referral to a response by Nick was PAST TENSE got lost/covered up/over looked/unrecognized/forgotten/(gasp)unread!:) by later 'viewers'.

With all the time spent complaining would it not have been just as easy to give the info in the body of the post rather than just give a link.

I can only speak for myself. A great group of people here. We all come here to have a friendly, relaxing conversation about woodworking. We don't need to be criticized by you.
I kinda feel embarrassed for you.

cincinnati wrote:With all the time spent complaining would it not have been just as easy to give the info in the body of the post rather than just give a link.

Hi, Cincin! I really don't have a good answer to your question, but many times a link to info. becomes more informative than to type out an answer. Especially if we don't remember the exact context. In other words, sometimes the message gets lost in translation.

Some days we just get a bit more grumpy than others. The best we can do is try real hard to live with it. There are a couple of us on the Forum that have been called curmudgeonly. Sometimes the name fits, but I know we all try to be helpful.

When I first joined this forum, there were less then 1500 members. There were a lot fewer threads and postings. I took the time to read through each and every one of them. I still do. I read each new thread and each new post; I click on every link and I appreciate the time that others take to be helpful. If I think that I have something helpful (or humorous), I post it. I have learned a lot from other members. One of the things that I have learned, and it has nothing to do with woodworking, but everything to do with this forum, is that we must be tolerant. Criticism just creates bad feelings, and that is knot what this forum is about. Let's please keep it friendly, and try to remember that each of us has a different frame of reference. I think that most of us are trying to be helpful. Criticism is best kept to ourselves. As is evident from this thread, it has a way of snow-balling, and I know that it will knot end good.