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just the diffrance between "knowing and doing "

integra22t wrote:just the diffrance between "knowing and doing "

I think there's more of a difference than that, actually. It's the difference between "knowing how to Google" and "doing". Being able to Google a topic and reading it isn't really "knowing", IMO. Finding information on a topic just makes one a good Googler, not knowledgeable on the subject. The knowledge is with the person who probably published that web article, not the person who found it.

EDIT: I'm trying to think of a university-learning analogy. When you research something in a university course, for example, you aren't just going to the library or reading scientific journals, and calling 'er done. You need to retain that info that you read, and produce a report, or essay, publish your own theories or write exams based on that research. That's "knowing", and I suppose a pretty good analogy of the difference between reading and knowing/doing.

Welcome to the digital age! It's completely changed the world as we know it. It's not entirely a bad thing as that's how existence works but in it's wake it's unfortunately made a lot of things completely obsolete to the masses.

One of those things are hobbies. That is now considered an antiquated term and concept to people these days. Now that there are computers and technology, who needs hobbies any longer?? That seems to be the general consensus.

Kids these days aren't mechanically inclined, and don't care to be. I read an article the other day that talked about how teenagers aren't even getting their drivers licenses until much later as it's no longer a priority to them. The fact that modern cars are no longer anything more than computers on wheels to get you from point A to point B which is a big part of it. The love affair with the automobile died a long time ago. Even the classic car hobby is circling the drain. Now there is a subject I can go on forever about.

I was born early enough to make me the age where I can immensely appreciate the time before all this happened, yet young enough where I can understand the progress and impact that modern technology has had.

Yeah,

I bought a 1/18 rtr a about a year ago, I guess because I wanted to throw $200 down a rat hole. I put about 6 runs on it and it is sitting on a shelf way back in the "junk room". It's just not fun. There is no connection to it. Sounds corny. But with no time invested in learning the components and systems gained by building a kit, it just feels hollow.

I was at Tammies Hobbies in Beaverton a while back (I never made it there as a kid but would see the ads in RCCA) and there where grown men jamming up the staff with simple stuff like "why are my tires wearing unevenly?" and "it's making a funny noise." It was baically; here, fix my rig while I wait. So sad yet funny all at once.

RTR has a place, I guess. But you don't learn to cook by ordering out.

Mark

https://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/tad/4869705465.html

Well good for those guys. And one of them was a jet mechanic!

Mark

TRX-1-3 wrote: Well good for those guys. And one of them was a jet mechanic!

Mark

At least someone is making good out of these rtr types.

Look, they're hiring.

https://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/tad/4870563602.html

Coelacanth wrote:

integra22t wrote:just the diffrance between "knowing and doing "

I think there's more of a difference than that, actually. It's the difference between "knowing how to Google" and "doing". Being able to Google a topic and reading it isn't really "knowing", IMO. Finding information on a topic just makes one a good Googler, not knowledgeable on the subject. The knowledge is with the person who probably published that web article, not the person who found it.

"Knowing THAT" versus "knowing HOW," is one way I've heard it put. And I admit to being a pretty big snob when dealing with people who don't know how to do certain things I consider basic skills. If you can't parallel-park in one pass, drive a stickshift, cook a meal from scratch, replace a leaky kitchen faucet, or read an actual map/atlas, I'll probably make fun of you if you ask me for help with any of those things. (Assuming you're physically/mentally capable of doing them, that is. I'm not cruel.)

As far as the "hobby" goes, I rarely even go into hobby shops anymore. Can't bear to. And if I do, I head straight for the corner where the K&S metal and Plastruct/Evergreen racks are. "No thanks, I don't need any help. Go answer that kid's question about how fast that Slash goes."

RC10th wrote:How do I put it back on?

Would you guys just quit the BS-ing and just answer the damn question?? I'm waiting to find out myself...

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote:

RC10th wrote:How do I put it back on?

Would you guys just quit the BS-ing and just answer the damn question?? I'm waiting to find out myself...

Google it.

rightie-tightie, leftie-loosey. unless you got an old dodge, then it matter what side of the car you are on.

jwscab wrote:unless you got an old dodge, then it matter what side of the car you are on.

That was such a pain, having 2 different sets of lug nuts for my Charger, I ended up pounding out all the 1/2" LH thread studs and replaced them all with 1/2" RH. Half the time I'd take it to a shop back in those days and the mechanic would crank on those beyotch lug-nuts with his impact gun and even broke a stud once or twice, thinking he was loosening them but was actually tightening them.

More then likely they also had an "LH" stamped into the lugs. Funnily enough most of todays mechanics don't know how to work on older cars properly.


"where do you plug in the code reader ?"

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote:

RC10th wrote:How do I put it back on?

Would you guys just quit the BS-ing and just answer the damn question?? I'm waiting to find out myself...

Weeeeeelll, you have this one small metallic part with a hex (that's six-sided or six-cornered, whatever you like...) shape and a hole with threads in the middle. Then you have the car, which has wheel axles (with or without wheels; if without, first buys wheels and tires and slide them onto the axles - 1 wheel per axle), which normally are also threaded. Align the wheel nut with the axle, ensuring the threads mate (note: this doesn't refer to copulation), and turn it clockwise. Be sure to use your nut driver to tighten it, again turning clockwise. No, a nut driver is not some tool to drive nuts, figuratively, the food, or otherwise. It fits over the hex portion of the wheel nut, allowing you to either tighten it or loosen it.

Oh, and be sure not to try to screw your own nuts onto the axle, or u8se the nut driver on your own [nuts]. It will hurt like hell and you will end up in the ER, with doctors wondering whether you watched Fifty Shades of Gray and laughing at you. Although I won't stop you from doing that, because at least it will ensure you won't be reproducing any time soon (or ever, in fact). Which, considering your terminal stupidity, probably would be a good thing for humanity's sake.

Gods, I think I had a chat about another subject in the same kind of words with a coworker last week...