OMS hot dipped galvinized cylinders...

[roakey]

There's several reasons why you should search for and add to an existing note if your question has already been addressed but perhaps wasn't answered exactly:

1) It'll pop the "old" note up to the front of the forum and become a "current" note when you add to it.

2) Later noters, when they do a search, will find the note and if all the questions and answers are in one note, it'll be "one stop shopping" and perhaps answer their question before they even have to ask it -- you can't get a faster answer to a question than finding it already answered!

3) Posting to an existing note shows folks that you've done your homework and the question isn't answered.

4) It avoids the "search before you ask" flame wars.

5) It saves regulators like me the work of combining notes like this one. I've been spending some time collapsing topics of interest to me into one huge note, for two examples see the painting AL tanks and painting steel tanks notes that were dozens of separate notes originally.

And the downside:

Well, there is no downside.

So help me out and search and if what you find doesn't answer your question, find good base topic that comes close and ask the question there.

Roak

 

[RichLockyer]

scubafanatic once bubbled...
....um, 'thanks' LUBOLD8431...I'm well aware this isn't the 1st thread on the subject...and had read the other threads as they appeared...just thought I could get a quick answer this way, since it was a simple question....and not a debate starter.

But honestly.... a mere 3 posts above yours, your question was answered.
It's a bit easier to overlook a repeat question if the answer is at least in a DIFFERENT thread (and I think some people are a bit hard on people in this regard).

It goes back to something I once heard from a very successful salesman: "Never join a conversation that you haven't listened to for more than 2 full minutes".
Same here. Don't ask a question in a thread unless you've read the thread itself, or if it's a very long thread, at least the last couple of pages.

 

[LUBOLD8431]

Actually Rich, these threads were merged after the dude ripped me...

 

[RichLockyer]

LUBOLD8431 once bubbled...
Actually Rich, these threads were merged after the dude ripped me...

Arrrg... Why don't the mods indicate when threads are merged?

So scubafanatic's question was the first post in the (new) thread?

 

[LUBOLD8431]

Yeah, he started off the new thread that got merged with this one...

Yeah, it kinds sneeks up on ya...

 

[roakey]

I merge newer notes into the older notes.


As far as I can tell, they're merged based on posting order, so there's no way to delineate "merge started here", since any such post would appear after the start of the newer, duplicate note.

Of course I haven't spent a whole lot of time playing around to see how merges actually are sorted out, but from what I've done, this appears to be the case...

Roak