Old post about turning a vacuum petcock into a manual one....

[tkent02]

I wrote this post about ten years ago, can't find it now. Any ideas? How can I do a google search of old forum threads?

Thanks!

[Cipher]

petcock to manual site:http://www.thegsresources.com

use whatever string you want in front of

site:http://www.thegsresources.com

[Brendan W]

Tag the search, gs resources. loads of them out there mostly leading back to the old tech info archive

[tkent02]

How can I find the one that I wrote?

[roeme]

How can I find the one that I wrote?

In Advanced Search you can specify your username.

[tkent02]

It's not working that way, GSR search is weak, need to use google but i don't know how to put my name in the search.

[Brendan W]

Hmmmmm............ Just adding tkent to the string drags in all results.
Try tkent+petcock+manual , exact match or something like that.

[tkent02]

Somehow I'm not getting it to work.

Can someone please show me how to put my name in the google search complete with whatever slashes or plusses or whatever I might need?

Thanks!

[geol]

Quotes around a word or phrase mean that phrase (as in quotes) must be returned and a PLUS SIGN in front means that the word MUST be in the document.

Entering the EXACT username doesn't mean posts started by that person; only that they were part of the thread I think.

Here are the results I got from a search on +"petcock" using tkent02 username as the search criteria:

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/search.php?searchid=1201472

[tkent02]

OK, I got that same exact nothing from the GSR search, many many times using different phrases and words. Anyone know how to put it in a google search including my name?

Thanks!

[loud et]

Here is something I found.
Not by you Tom.

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/archive/index.php/t-78551.html

[roeme]

OK, I got that same exact nothing from the GSR search, many many times using different phrases and words. Anyone know how to put it in a google search including my name?

Thanks!

Caveat emptor; Google does not necessary hold all pages of a domain in their index; they drop what they deem irrelevant. So the GSR Search may show more results than google.

For google, try some permutations of the following query:
[code]+tkent02 +petcock site:thegsresources.com[/code]

As mentioned, everything word preceeded by a plus must appear on a page to be included in the results. If you want a phrase verbatim, add double quotes:

[code]+tkent02 "petcock conversion to manual" site:thegsresources.com[/code]


Also, you can limit your results to a certain date range through the "Search Tools" menu. Might help since you mention a rough estimate when it was posted. But watch out, I'm not sure wether Google actually parses the post dates, or refers to the date when a page was added to their index!

I think you know best wether it was titled "conversion", "update", "change", or whatever. IIRC, google tries and includes conjugated and similar words automatically, but not sure. Google's strength isn't really searching within a big and 'weakly' interlinked text corpus such as one of a forum, but rather doing that for myriads for web-pages.

[tkent02]

OK, I figured out what I did before and did it again. Works great, has a real off position now. Took some pictures even, if there's any interest I'll make another thread about it.

[ShadowFocus603]

I wouldn't mind seeing what you did. I have an idea but it'd be nice to actually see it done.

[tkent02]

OK, I'll do some pictures.....