CBlair
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2002
- Location
- Lawrenceville GA USA
This post is going to be a long one, I will break it up into several short posts then I will lock this thread.
Richard has received a 30 day ban from posting on the Practical Machinist Forum. This is not the first time and I wanted to say a few words about it as I know others will have questions.
For the new members Richard is a professional machine re-conditioner who specializes in scraping and refitting. He has worked all his life all over the world and for many years has traveled to teach scraping techniques. You can imagine what a lifetime of that kind of work can do your body. The wear and tear on your hands wrists forearms and back. If you cannot at least give some respect to a man who has done this work for as long as he has then you need to rethink your values.
Richard has a failing that has come up many times in this forum. He is so opinionated about his techniques and opinions that he can really hurt some members with his comments. I have worked with him for several years now to get him to see where the way he writes can cause offense. And it has worked for a while and I think we can all see that the New Richard has been very helpful.
But I have received several complaints lately about a few posts. Richard himself asked me to go back and delete some comments he had made. But after some consultation I decided not to change them as that would make the thread to difficult to understand.
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Richard has received a 30 day ban from posting on the Practical Machinist Forum. This is not the first time and I wanted to say a few words about it as I know others will have questions.
For the new members Richard is a professional machine re-conditioner who specializes in scraping and refitting. He has worked all his life all over the world and for many years has traveled to teach scraping techniques. You can imagine what a lifetime of that kind of work can do your body. The wear and tear on your hands wrists forearms and back. If you cannot at least give some respect to a man who has done this work for as long as he has then you need to rethink your values.
Richard has a failing that has come up many times in this forum. He is so opinionated about his techniques and opinions that he can really hurt some members with his comments. I have worked with him for several years now to get him to see where the way he writes can cause offense. And it has worked for a while and I think we can all see that the New Richard has been very helpful.
But I have received several complaints lately about a few posts. Richard himself asked me to go back and delete some comments he had made. But after some consultation I decided not to change them as that would make the thread to difficult to understand.
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