What are you doing at the moment?

[EasternWest]

Re: What are you doing at the moment?

I am not a handy man by any means, but a few years ago the front door lock broke. I thought, that would be easy to fix, I don't need a lock Smith. When I opened the box of the new lock and tried to fit it, I found the instructions pretty bad and struggled to fix it. I went on you tube, followed the video and bingo.

Youtube is the modern "Idiots guide to anything". Idiots includes myself!

[Eastdog]

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Cheers Easty. Trial and lots of errors .

How is your first machine going?

[Eastdog]

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I'm handy but YouTube videos are the best.

Something we didn't have around 20 years but yeah today you can literally watch a Youtube video do of DIY.

[KT31]

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Something we didn't have around 20 years but yeah today you can literally watch a Youtube video do of DIY.

Spoken like a true old man Eastie, twenty years ago you were just out of nappies.

[Twodogs]

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Something we didn't have around 20 years but yeah today you can literally watch a Youtube video do of DIY.

20 years ago we got to make it up as we went along, it was a special kind of indulgence. None was expected to be an expert in something we'd just watched a video about. We were allowed to make mistakes and that's how we learned stuff. The YouTube vids are good but learning by trial and error is more fun I reckon. YouTube vids take a bit of the magic away.

[ledge]

Re: What are you doing at the moment?

20 years ago we got to make it up as we went along, it was a special kind of indulgence. None was expected to be an expert in something we'd just watched a video about. We were allowed to make mistakes and that's how we learned stuff. The YouTube vids are good but learning by trial and error is more fun I reckon. YouTube vids take a bit of the magic away.

The old saying " if all else fails read the instructions"

[Twodogs]

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The old saying " if all else fails read the instructions"

Where does it say that?

My dad had a saying "never show an idiot a job that's half done" if the people you work for could see their projects at the halfway stage most of them would never hire you again. Somehow the job always looks perfect when you pack your tools away though.

[EasternWest]

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How is your first machine going?

Great thanks Easty. I built it for my brother in law as a Christmas present. We use it quite often, and we had one absolutely epic NBA Jam tournament on it once - great night (and I won the tournament too).

This one has been a lot easier because I remembered a lot of where I went wrong and right the first time.

Thanks for asking.

[ledge]

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Where does it say that?

My Rule of thumb and excuse for stuffing it up.

[Twodogs]

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My Rule of thumb and excuse for stuffing it up.

Is it my nerd or tradie brain that's giggling at the fact I had to fix the quotation in your post?

[ledge]

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Is it my nerd or tradie brain that's giggling at the fact I had to fix the quotation in your post?

That's the nerd coming out , the tradie would realise it's tradie slang for who gives a shit I know what you mean :-)

[Twodogs]

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That's the nerd coming out , the tradie would realise it's tradie slang for who gives a shit I know what you mean :-)

Heh! My good old nerd brain coming to the fore.

[Eastdog]

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Spoken like a true old man Eastie, twenty years ago you were just out of nappies.

Yep about 24-27 years ago I was

[Eastdog]

Re: What are you doing at the moment?

Will have my full drivers licence from November 2017 onwards after 3 years on my P plates.

[Twodogs]

Re: What are you doing at the moment?

What sort of car do you drive Easty? I'm a Mitsubishi man.