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On Thursday, 12 March 2020 09:57:19 UTC, Jim Stewart wrote:
On 12/03/2020 09:53, David wrote:
Back in the day I worked from DIY manuals, including a very good
Readers
Digest one. We are talking 1970s though.

These days most of the advice seems to be YouTube videos and websites.

Are there any real paper DIY manuals which are both good and current?

Cheers



Dave R


stuff that you can't beat a good youtube video ..

+1. The availability of so many viewpoints
& assumption levels makes videos far better,
though some like to waste 10 minutes
presenting 1 minute of info.

Yeah, it certainly makes it clear how skilled
the professional presenters are when you
see the worst of what some amateurs can do.

FWIW that 70s reader's digest one
still pops up for sale on occasion,

Yep.

much of it very out of date

Yeah, no mention of the rivnuts so common in cars now.

but some is still good. IIRC it includes how to change
a gramophone idler wheel & zero risk assessments.