Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PT-6 1st valve mechanism (rotary)?


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Posted by A Guy in Virginia on December 19, 2000 at 12:55:36:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: PT-6 1st valve mechanism (rotary)? posted by Kaseem on December 19, 2000 at 12:11:49:

Okay, you asked for it. (For those not wanting to see this, hit your back button now.)

Quoting Mr. Kaseem for convenience:

"Has anyone had a mechanism (trigger, etc.) constructed for 1st-valve-slide 'in-flight' movement with one of these horns? If so, details please? Manually reaching it
isn't practical. Adjusting it is necessary. Thanks."

You state the problem as: "Manually reaching [the first valve slide] isn't practical. Adjusting it is necessary." If this isn't your problem, then don't say these things. If it is your problem, then expect advice for how to solve it. People are not stupid, as you seem to think. They look through the obvious to find the underlying problem, and try to address that problem. They do this because most people can't construct a decent sentence to save their lives, and they want to be helpful in spite of unclear requests. They are so used to lack of clarity that even when a request is clear (as this was not), they assume there must be more than meets the eye.

You don't establish your credentials, and therefore invite responses from people who assume you (like most people) are not qualified. This includes taking the horn to a qualified repairman, which will, indeed, solve your stated problem. This insults you, and you act insulted. It was meant as no insult, however, as anyone with a modicum of good faith would have recognized instantly. For you to take it as such is, however, insulting to the good intentions of the group.

Now, mixed in with the advice on solving your problem, you might also gather the responses from those who have had the modification done on their PT-6, and are willing to give their time telling you how they did it. They do not owe you this information, and if you get it, you should be grateful. If you get advice that you don't need, ignore it, instead of pompously bitching about it, because it might be just the thing *I* needed to hear for my problem.

What makes you think the answers you don't need are preventing you from getting the answers you do need? But I'd bet that your complaints will, in fact, prevent you from getting those answers, because who wants to step into your anthill? (Except for fearless guys in Virginia--and where are those fearless guys in California when you need them?)

Your post invites advice, even if you don't realize it, and then you attack those who provide the advice that you *now* say you don't need. Polite people would just smile and say "thanks," or clarify their question politely, instead of belligerently.

There's an old saying: Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. If you ask for free information (okay, you didn't want "advice"), then you appear to be ungrateful when you complain about the responses you get. That makes the final word of your post a lie.

This response is blunt. Brusque in the extreme; perhaps even rude. But the humourous gently proddings of others to adopt a more civil tone didn't work. And you did ask for it.

A Guy in Virginia


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