[Corley]

BRENT in 10-uh-C, et al,

I agree that people lack skills, that is until they aquire them. How do they aquire the skills? Through various methods, among them, watching videos, calling someone with known skills, forums, etc. So on the one hand, we criticise peeps for not having skills, and on the other hand, we criticise peeps for trying to aquire those skills. This puts us in quite a pickle, with us mostly just criticizing peeps less skilled than ourselves.

Now as we all know, there is more than one way to skin a cat, right? For example, my skill might not include painting cars, where some other guys skill may not include pouring babbit bearings. Guess what, we both can still "restore" a model A, perhaps with the help of others, or perhaps by learning the new skill required. One thing is for darn sure, criticizing each other for our lack of skills won't help get the job done. I personally welcome questions like which way to remove a lug nut (a perfectly valid question, by the way, since some early cars had left hand threads on the driver's side, not withstanding in some countries where drivers may not sit where we think they should), and those are exactly the guys who I want to help, because they thought about it enough to ask the question. I may think to myself, "Ah geeze, what is happening to our youth today?", But I want to help that person out, not so much by doing for them, but by showing them how to do the thing. That way we pass on our skills.

The big problem is finding peeps with enough interest to pass our skills on to. Gee, how did I get so off topic? My apologies, but after hitting all those keys, I'm not erasing it.