Newer members and lurkers Re: you tube

You will often hear me diss you tube and wounder why this crabby old codger is so He** bent against you tube. here is why.

There has recently been some discussion of you tube and its value.
Firs,t if there was a get rich vid on you tube that person would be too busy getting rich to post his/her valuable secret.

Secondly, most you tube vids are incomplete or just wrong, some times to the point of possible deadly results.

Third, why would one go to you tube when the forum experts provide proper safe and correct vids.

I thought maybe I am being unfair, so yesterday during 5 hours of a Frog strangling rain here , I spent those 5 hours watching you tube vids on scrapping and Gold refining and recovery (I have been a hobby refiner since my days on the American river near Coloma Ca.)



During those 5 hrs here is what I found and didn't find.

I didn't find one vid with a complete explanation of any thing. What I did find was dangerous and environmentally disastrous methods.

smashing a tv tube to small pieces in a driveway get .02 worthy of metal then throwing the lead glass particles in the trash Ben for the trash truck.

a guy who made a big deal of using rubber gloves and a respirator when recovering and refining gold. the only problem with that was he didn't put on the gloves or respirator half the time, he was refining in his garage,his wife was doing the vid and had no mask. A guy, (a favorite with some here) showing how to scrap a microwave (it was obviously his first) smashing the gun to get at the bit of Alu. in the process smashing the Cadmium post to powder (no mask).

I am not going through the whole 5 hours just suffice it to say these are representative of what I saw and why I'm so down on you tube learning.

There are members who have their own you tube vids up I am not referring to them.