Finding post on the forum

[woundedbear]

Hello, everyone! how do I find postings on this forum? For instances if I have questions about servos or using dope finishes etc... Things that have already been discussed here on the Guillows forum before. I have posted a question about balsa wood strippers and have gotten much good advice about the subject if something has already been discussed. How do I locate it here? There's no point in posting a question about something that has already been covered.

[Bill Gaylord]

Forum based search engines aren't very good. I've literally not been able to track down a thread, because of one character in my search terms being caps or non-caps, in contrast to the actual thread title. When I'm looking for something here, I search using Google and ad "balsamodels" to the search terms. The "balsamodels" will give you results from the Guillow's site.

[woundedbear]

Thank's Bull

[Coloradoken]

you can try the "search" at the top of the page. I put in "wood stripper" and it found 29 treads going back to 2009.
Worth a shot.

[Mfezi]

Yes, using external search engines can be very effective. I find I get the best results using google. For those that don't know: You can force google to only look within a certain website or domain, by adding a "site:" instruction. For example, type this into the google search engine and see what happens:

dope finishes site:balsamodels.com

That last part "site:balsamodels.com" effectively forces it to look only on this site.