Parts help template

vanepp · October 13, 2025, 2:39pm

KjellM:

Do you have indication what doesn’t work? What are the top most problems?

I could think off:

OP (=Original Poster) did not post in the “parts help” category →did not see the template

OP resurrected an old thread →did not see the template

OP ignored the template

OP did not try to search for the part

OP searched for a part, but they still didn’t find it, although the part exists

OP use the template, but the information provided is not sufficient

Edit: I updated the template using your suggestions. Basically I added the statement, that some effort from the OP is expected, and that information is mandatory to create a part.

This tries to address points 3, 4 and 6.

Maybe to help with point 6, we could add a link to a post that provided good data, ready to start working on?

As you say it is mostly 3, 4 and 6 with less amounts of 1 and still less of 5 (although that occasionally happens, but is easy to correct with a search and a post so is of less concern.) A common tactic is to apparently delete the template and either ask for something ill defined or post a skewed and angled (probably to avoid cloning and thus not useful) picture of something without any description of what it might be. It is sometimes possible to do a google image search and determine what they want (although I have seen cases where the image is not online!), but then you need to verify it is actually what they want first which adds clutter and delay. As I said I am not sure this is fixable and we may just have to live with the current method of posting “not enough information” and a list of what is needed as the volume currently isn’t that high usually. A reference post with the examples in a pinned post with a reference in the template may be the best bet, as I expect if the template looks to complex it will get deleted and we are back to where we started so a fairly short template with a link to a post with what we are looking for may be the best bet (I am not much good at web design unfortunately.) The recent post that I built the example from is a good example of what I mean. It is a template apparently deleted, skewed (as I said likely to make it difficult to clone) picture with a minimal description. In that case with the name it was easy enough to find the part in a google search (although less easy to find sufficient data!) and then enough data to make a part but it was a fair amount of work on top of the work to make the part. I probably wouldn’t have done it except that I wanted to create a new template and that was a good example. Hope this helps!

edit:

The very next post from yours is another good example. Template apparently deleted, but at least a decent image which should let me find a suitable part. It may be that having a short template with a link to the required data may help with this (I hope!)

Peter