I didn't watch it, but I am sure he will be admonished to a fare-thee-well in the comments and soon regret posting.
Problem with social media, eveyone and his cousin can post supposed "educational videos" and add in that your (below) average laypersons have a "celebrity-itis" carryover from the old T.V. days.
These days, if any Joe Schmoe posts a video - it must be the TRUTE !
I repeat my statement from the Uncle Tony lambasting thread: MOST PRO mechanics I have known over 50 decades have NO CLUE about motor oil ** and oil filters. And same with accomplished mechanical engineers I have worked with. I certainly didn't when I was a NIASE Master in the 70's and 80s. I got my education later in life. Some of it here.
This is a Oil and filter NERD forum. Quite a special family. Nurse Ratched, I demand you turn on the T.V. !
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** except the typical more power and loose = "thicker" oil"
This is a Oil and filter NERD forum.
It sure is. And the accompanying lifestyles.. I find acceptance and community here. Even the competitive nature. However, I agree with your statement. (I refer to us as "Oil connoisseurs in the HPL event thread. I run HPL oil. I'm buying some at the event. Most wouldn't even think about using HPL.. Hence, refer back to your statement.)
Now, since I'm the one that posted and started... It came through my video feed on YouTube. And I look and saw the thread about Uncle Tony. I think it is very important to point out incorrect information on motor oil,
as well as motor oil filters there are a LOT of channels I don't watch, no longer watch, you find what works for you in terms of presentation and style (i.e. Schrodinger's Box? Yes. Scanner Danner? No. Watch Wes Work? Not really. Wrenching With Kenny? Enjoyable. I Do Cars? Happy Gilmore with an impact wrench. And so on, and so on.. it's up to your preference..) .. so, when WWK puts out a video about oil filters, you get people, like myself, that might get taken in by the "old time" knowledge (things I'd ask someone like
@Trav if I ever wanted to double-check my knowledge on something mechanical, including maybe how an oil filter works. Folks like him have their lives, likely have no time, and even if they did, are not obligated to share and educate.) So videos like that one can proliferate.
What value they have.. I'd rather watch a video like that, than read paragraphs and paragraphs upon paragraphs and paragraphs, full of as many abbreviations and technical words as possible, possibly with a slightly arrogant tone and "I know more than you about this so I am going to make sure you know that" presentation about information about oils and/or OFs.. thar doesn't ALWAYS happen, but.. some here, some posts here, are making you make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you know NOT AS MUCH as the one posting the information, and for the few that are on equal playing fields it's all well and good and :cheers: beer icons.. for the rest of us, once we don't get the sense we are presented clear and straightforward information.. to the YouTube "educational videos" we go. And here we are.
And I wouldn't have posted this if I didn't see an Uncle Tony filters thread. That guy once showed him gasoline doesn't burn by putting his cigarette out in a pitcher of gasoline or something. I swear it. And if it was relevant to this thread.. I'd post that.
