Dave, I think that TEA is fine just as it is, as many of my fellow members have already pointed out, it keeps us off the streets and out of trouble, and especially true for us oldies
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. I belong to many forums and to be honest, I cannot even remember my username or login passwords for them as I use them that much, honestly but here I have zero problem remembering and can seen logging in many times daily. Since joining this forum, which I only discovered through watching your video blog, I have never felt such a warm and friendly welcome on any of the other forums as I did here. It took me a while to discover the TEA thread, infact I was invited to join in here because of my addiction to test equipment in general and as soon as I had a sniff around the TEA thread, I have become hooked on it and have made many friends as well. It is a thriving community in its own right and as has been said already, its like a clubhouse to us, we discuss all things here from the obvious test equipment and relative items right through to politics on the odd occasion and we never allow it to get to far out of hand, self regulating if you will.
We do all kinds of product tear downs and repairs and if we think its good enough that it might help others, we often start a new thread in the repairs section so that in it self gets stored in its own sub section / heading and other-times, Bitseeker will add it into his POI section.
Other forums are much more rigid in their approach and as such they don't tend to be much used as the EEVBLOG and TEA especially, I think of it like a family were care about each others problems and tales of woe and offer each support and advice if required etc. I agree with all the comments others have already made and say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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