Okay guys, having all our UOA information in its respective forums is great.
Having it all in tables with uniform formatting and columns for all the information we usually track is better.
As a result, I designed a form to be used for this purpose.
You may have seen an early version of this form posted in this thread:
http://theoildrop.server101.com/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=014181#000000
I now have this form refined slightly and with an Access database to keep the data in.
Once we get so many entries in the database, I'd like to export out to text format so that we could post the information either on the main BITOG page or perhaps in a sticky thread. This would be MUCH easier to skim through than several hundred UOAs all in different formats and spread through four years worth of posts.
I've already got BITOG's 26 first gasoline UOAs, 21 Ford/Mazda Duratec UOAs and 7 of the board's longest-interval gas UOAs entered.
Anyone interested in volunteering to help me enter all this data? I'll probably do it all myself eventually, but I figure I'll get it done quicker by myself.
Post in here if you're interested and we can discuss specifics.
I'll be posting a sample of a couple of analyses later in this thread.
Notes:
Michael Wan made a very nice form I've noticed here:
http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=48;t=000095
I've considered using just a couple of the fields on there including:
Filter Brand
Filter Part #
Sump Size
Make-up Oil
His "conditions" field is interesting, but right now I'm basically putting all of the 4 above information in my "NOTES" field, since it seems like we don't get the above information too often.
I would LOVE to add in the particle counts he has, too, but that's a BUNCH of fields and only in a small minority of UOA posts. Perhaps we could make a special form for posts with that information in, or tabulate it later for the ones with particle counts. That wouldn't take too long, given their numbers...
Having it all in tables with uniform formatting and columns for all the information we usually track is better.
As a result, I designed a form to be used for this purpose.
You may have seen an early version of this form posted in this thread:
http://theoildrop.server101.com/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=014181#000000
I now have this form refined slightly and with an Access database to keep the data in.
Once we get so many entries in the database, I'd like to export out to text format so that we could post the information either on the main BITOG page or perhaps in a sticky thread. This would be MUCH easier to skim through than several hundred UOAs all in different formats and spread through four years worth of posts.
I've already got BITOG's 26 first gasoline UOAs, 21 Ford/Mazda Duratec UOAs and 7 of the board's longest-interval gas UOAs entered.
Anyone interested in volunteering to help me enter all this data? I'll probably do it all myself eventually, but I figure I'll get it done quicker by myself.
Post in here if you're interested and we can discuss specifics.
I'll be posting a sample of a couple of analyses later in this thread.
Notes:
Michael Wan made a very nice form I've noticed here:
http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=48;t=000095
I've considered using just a couple of the fields on there including:
Filter Brand
Filter Part #
Sump Size
Make-up Oil
His "conditions" field is interesting, but right now I'm basically putting all of the 4 above information in my "NOTES" field, since it seems like we don't get the above information too often.
I would LOVE to add in the particle counts he has, too, but that's a BUNCH of fields and only in a small minority of UOA posts. Perhaps we could make a special form for posts with that information in, or tabulate it later for the ones with particle counts. That wouldn't take too long, given their numbers...