vry nicely explained Nibbs !
Thanks Kevin, one other thing too I would like to add, yes scrapebox and xrumer are both great tools. But if you wanted to learn how to work on cars, but knew nothing about working on cars at all, lets say you wanted your Dad to teach you everything form the ground up. What's the first thing he has you do? Pull the trannie? Hell no, how about hold the shoplight? Back then you probably would think that he is just making you do the grunt work so he doesn't have to, and that is always part of it, but the bigger part is you sitting there, watching him work, how we works, what he does with the tools, how this gets put on, this gets taken off, etc.
Now, what if on Day Two, a Snap On truck pulled up, and gave you state of the art Tap & Die sets, a calibrated Torque Wrench, and a 1/2 inch Impact Gun that would twist the femur off a bull? You would say, "This is some bad ass shit." but that would be about as far as you could go with it. Why? You haven't a clue about how to use them, but you do know they are some bad ass tools though. What is Dad gonna do, say, "Okay, before you learn what a ratchet is, lets start with taking off the headers and having you tap new holes in the head?" No, Dad is gonna say that one day you will know what these tools do and best of all how to use them, but if you start with them you won't learn shit.
Sorry for the symantics, okay I admit, I am really not sorry, but what I mean is so many IM's try to run before they learn how to walk. I know because I did the same thing, I always went off on the latest greatest tangent without ever learning the fundamentals first in a solid meaningful way. I wasted 5 years accomplishing dick with the Torque wrench and tap & die sets, and never even learned what the hell a ratchet was.
So the moral of the story is, Snap On sucks and Dad is an idiot! No, I am sure you get what I mean. Don't waste your precious time until learning the basics, is all.
Jim