Lead-Acid battery converted to Lead-Alum

Some of things I learn on this forum amaze me. Keeps a guy thinking...lol

Scott, you have a great gift for teaching. I have learned things from you I have never wanted to know.
This is not a bad thing as learning is an investment I can't loose on. I think it is because your passion is palatable.

A book I read often has a line in it that I love. "contempt prior to investigation leads to ever lasting ignorance".
I try to do my own homework on these sorts of things. I know with today's ease of publishing it is pretty easy
to make things sound better than they are. You can post or publish about anything now days without it being
fact checked. This means that you must always be ready to do your homework and fact checking. then in doing
that you have to be willing to look at different sides of things that you may not agree with. It is not always
easy to put aside what you think you know is right, or you want to be right so bad you can taste it and look
at the opposing view with an open mind.



It is kind of like the shingle recycling thing in a recent post, while the post instantly got me thinking that I may
be missing out on a revenue source, after I did my own homework and fact checking I found that it was and is
far more than I had thought originally.

Really we as scrappers should be very aware of this sort of thing. How many times have you heard that
computers are full of gold? Like you just flip it up and dump it out. I get at least one person a month
that tells me how easy it is to extract gold from ewaste, only to find that they are a janitor at the local
school. But they seen it on the internet....Go figure.

Copper Head I think this could prove to be an interesting post.

Originally Posted by msearl3244

Scott, you have a great gift for teaching. I have learned things from you I have never wanted to know.
This is not a bad thing as learning is an investment I can't loose on.

I was thinking the same thing...

Originally Posted by msearl3244

Some of things I learn on this forum amaze me. Keeps a guy thinking...lol

Scott, you have a great gift for teaching. I have learned things from you I have never wanted to know.
This is not a bad thing as learning is an investment I can't loose on. I think it is because your passion is palatable.

A book I read often has a line in it that I love. "contempt prior to investigation leads to ever lasting ignorance".

Thank you for saying that, it made my day, but I'm not so sure if I have a gift for teaching to be honest. I don't like the idea coming of as a "know-it-all" either. I tend to way over explain myself because I worry about not explaining myself well enough. Even now as I am writing this. My posts end up being walls of text, and this is oddly enough born of my own insecurities about being able to explain any given subject. For me, the posts that really impress me are always the one where the person is able to express so much with a simply few sentences. I have a world of respect for people like that.

So I go back and read my posts and think to myself I should be able to shrink down what I have said, but never can find a way to do it. It's honestly frustrating. So I appreciate the comment more than you might think. But I also learn a ton anytime I crack open a thread I haven't yet read. That's why I keep coming back, posting while I work, because I learn so much and find such interesting and engaging topics. And that's because of people like Copper Head, you, any all the others who I read on a regular basis that are also posting or will post on this thread, and others, still. So long as this forum is made up of people, like those I seem to come into contact with every day, I will be unable to stay away for very long.

Copper Head, I like the way you think outside the box, I hope what I say doesn't discourage you from continuing to post the types of questions you post. It's really the questions that drive us to find answers after all. And your questions in other posts have led me to look up information that I had not really considered. In other words they have value.

Scott

Originally Posted by NobleMetalWorks

Thank you for saying that, it made my day, but I'm not so sure if I have a gift for teaching to be honest. I don't like the idea coming of as a "know-it-all" either. I tend to way over explain myself because I worry about not explaining myself well enough. Even now as I am writing this. My posts end up being walls of text, and this is oddly enough born of my own insecurities about being able to explain any given subject. For me, the posts that really impress me are always the one where the person is able to express so much with a simply few sentences. I have a world of respect for people like that.

I don't know about anyone else, but I actually prefer walls of text when you're explaining something. There's no way I would have understood some of the more advanced concepts you've discussed on the forum if you hadn't explained it like you did. For me personally, it makes it a lot easier to comprehend things like that when every little bit is spelled out in front of me. Being able to explain something in a few words is great, but odds are something was left out.