Advice on searches

Post by **MikeNash** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:55 am

Greetings comrades! A Happy New Year to you all!

I'm about to fit an oil temperature gauge and seek some advice on both the right range for a Minor and a safe maximum. And since there's nothing new under the Sun, the first thing to do is to use our search facility. But if I put in the two words
oil temperature
I get a mass of offerings addressing the two words individually rather than linked together. How do you link words together to get a more focused search?
Regards, MikeN.

Post by **eamonn** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:04 am

It's Boolean so use AND to specify that both terms should be in the articles.
Or tick the "search for all terms" radio button below the search field box.
HTH

Post by **MikeNash** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:29 am

Thanks for the advice Eamonn. I've just tried
oil AND temperature
and I now get offerings restricted to those with both words in them. But I want them connected such as happens if you google the words oil temperature contained in quote marks. What am I doing wrong?
Sorry if I'm being thick; regards, MikeN.

Post by **eamonn** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:07 am

Unfortunately the phpBB search function doesn't do string searches in quotes like google.
2 possible options.
Stick with the "search all terms" option but also ask it to show the results as posts rather than topic titles. This gives you a quicker way of scanning the results for the right sort of discussion. Or
Cheat and use google to search for MMOC and "oil temperature" in one search.

Post by **MikeNash** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:53 pm

Thanks again Eamonn.
Your advice reduced the offerings from 1036 to 39, a handleable number. I'd already done a google and it hadn't occurred to me it was scanning our site as well. Nothing occurred in the first 10 pages of offerings by which time I'd given up. Plenty of advice there, of course, but nothing directly (so far) on A series engines or their equivalent.
I'll get my temperature gauge up and running and if nothing found on the web by then, then I'll ask the membership direct. Taa everso, MikeN.

Post by **Kevin** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:11 am

Hi Mike just wondered why you need an oil temperature guage are you going to be running a highly tuned engine as its not often used on Moggies and I cant remember the last time I saw one fitted.

Post by **MikeNash** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:49 pm

Curiousity - and the Pushing Back the Frontiers of Science thingy. Its a bit of a problem with old scientists - we adore tables of figures, equations and wobbly graphs.
I've a dead standard 1098, and I want to know how it goes now before its improved. Don't get me started or I'll bore you with fuel and airflow. (Sometimes I think we need a Science Corner in the site - but I'd be on my own.) MikeN.

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:15 pm

Curiousity - and the Pushing Back the Frontiers of Science thingy. Its a bit of a problem with old scientists

Sounds fine to me and although I have been in the comms industry I started working life in Toolmaking so curiousity I can certainly understand