Old posts!!!

KAAK, forgive my stupidity but I have to ask. How are you saving this information? I would really like to help but I am technologically challenged, make that seriously challenged. If you could explain to me how to help, I would be more than glad to lend a hand.
 
No stupidity witnessed. I went simple and simply copied and pasted individual posts. Basically snipping out the useful info and pasted in Word Pad or Microsoft word. A bit chaotic, but come long winter, I'll sort through it and organize it :) Found Jerry's lesson of "The history of Micarta" :cool:
 
I did the same thing with a few nice pics. I saw what the plan was on the HI forum, that is a good idea.
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
No stupidity witnessed. I went simple and simply copied and pasted individual posts. Basically snipping out the useful info and pasted in Word Pad or Microsoft word. A bit chaotic, but come long winter, I'll sort through it and organize it :) Found Jerry's lesson of "The history of Micarta" :cool:
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Easy way, file > save page as :D


Or even easier, just press Ctrl+S :p
 
Cyan said:
PAAK gimme a link to the history of micarta please!
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Jerry Busse said:
Get a quick degree in Micartaolgogy!
This post started as a response to our new friend Mell's inquiry regarding the handle material on his new Mean Street. As I responded it started to turn into the "War and Peace" of general Micarta info. So. . . .I decided to post it separately in order that it might be used as a quick reference.

Micarta was developed by Westinghouse earlier in the last century. It has a higher tensile strength than steel, it is impervious to changes in temperature and it will not swell, warp, or crack, even under adverse conditions, once it is on the knife.

There are three types of micarta and several grades of these three types. They all consist of layers of either paper, linen, or canvas. Paper is the most decorative of the three. I have seen paper micarta handles that are 20-30 years old that continue to look great and perform like the day the were made. Linen micarta is the middle grade when it comes to toughness and durability. I used linen exclusively throughout the 80's and very early 90's. It is very attractive when smoothed out and very strong. Canvas is the toughest of the three grades. It surpasses linen micarta by a large margin for strength and durability. Canvas also offers the best overall texture for slip resistance. It is probably the least attractive looking of the three grades unless you suffer from Busse Combat Nuclear Syndrome. In that case you can only find "beauty in the performance". Cosmetics be damned!

It would be difficult to go wrong with any of these three grades.

MICARTA TRIVIA BUSTER: I've come across some interesting history on Micarta through one of our legal resources. While doing research on Westinghouse he discovered that the inventors of Formica had borrowed so heavily from Micarta technology that the name "Formica" is short for the term "Formerly Micarta". Think of that the next time you drop a skillet on the kitchen counter. . . .

Oh yeah, I'm loaded with useless information like that. . . . Would you like to hear where the names "Steel Heart" and "Battle Mistress" came from. .. . .?


Yours in layered phenolics (Micarta),

Jerry Busse
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And that's where babies come from :D
 
If anybody here knows the Python programming language, I wrote a script which lets you save all the oldest threads from any forum. It saves the HTML source from each thread, so you will download the content, but no pictures or anything else. Also, cross-forum links won't work properly on what you download.

However, it DOES let you save all the content and I'm writing some more scripts which modify the downloaded files so that links and forum-referenced pictures work OK.

Here's an example of a saved page:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~robgaunt/threadsaver/190935_1.html

The filename 190935_1 reflects the fact that this is page 1 of the thread with ID 190935. This lets you find other pages of the same thread or cross-referenced threads.

You can get the script at:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~robgaunt/threadsaver/savethread_0.1.py

In order to run the script you will need to download Python (www.python.org). This is somewhat tricky and it would be best if you have some technical experience.

You will need to set the following values at the top of the source code file for the specific forum you are downloading threads for. E.g. for this forum, you would use:
forumID=713
numStickies=5
change the start and end index pages to reflect which threads you want to download.

So if you have startIndexPage = 1, endIndexPage = 10, and threadsPerIndexPage=200, you will download the first 2000 threads on the forum (this is regardless of the number of pages per thread). Set startIndexPage=10, endIndexPage = 20, threadsPerIndexPage=25, and you will download the oldest 225 through 500 threads on the forum. You get the point.

I was able to download about 500 threads in 2-3 hours on a dial-up connection. On a high-speed connection it will go a lot faster but in the end, it may be limited by your computer's speed and not your connection (the code is not optimized for high-speed connections).

Good luck, but I still hope that Spark will change his mind about deleting these old posts. There's a lot of good stuff in there.
 
THANK YOU VERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MUCH!!!

I will get on that in about 2 1/2 hrs. Gotta head to evenin' church service soon.
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
Gonna give that program a shot and will see what happens
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Best of luck, hope you can find a way to save those posts. I have found a way to save them but I do not know how to load this information yet.
 
Looking at this stuff and am drawing a blank.... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

My problem is reading the info but can't put two and two together. Downloaded the software, but not sure where to start :eek: :(
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
Looking at this stuff and am drawing a blank.... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

My problem is reading the info but can't put two and two together. Downloaded the software, but not sure where to start :eek: :(
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I think I have found a way to do it and I am now in August of 2002. :D

It's 1:30am here and I have downed my third cup of coffee for the night. :D

To what year do I have to save posts?
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
I hope so. I can't figure out which to use. Are you doing python?
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No, I am using the method Crushenator suggested. I am saving posts with information and the thoughts of fourmites. It is really interesting seeing how people come into Busse and realizing I was not the only one who asked so many questions. It is not exactly quick, but it works. I am going to try and upload my ongoing file into a new thread.
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3224518&postcount=28

Try doing this but can't quite figure this ****ing **** out.... Damn it!!! Don't want to lose the info. I know there is some valuable info in there cause I remember reading it a ways back on my late night reading ventures...

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I would try if I understood it. I am totally lost. I am trying to upload my microsoft word file into a new thread but I am encountering resistence (My lack of computer knowledge :o ).

I am working on it now. How much have you saved? Until what year do I have to save?
 
Only worked on copying the important info. Now working with that python.org that Khukri Monster suggested. Was working so far and then said indent error. I'm not computer savy enough to do this....... :grumpy:


Only at 2001 (early) IIRC. :(
 
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