Interesting solution to a ever-present problem. I've always assumed I'd just pull the motor off, and attach the connector onto the motor securely before sliding it back into place. Hopefully your connector screws will stay so tight you'll never have to use....right, you already established the dang things come loose...twice! You're right...good idea!
As for how to get the pictures to show in the post, we typically upload the image file, so that it stays with the post, like you did with the first one. Otherwise, if the outside URL eventually goes away, the forum loses that information. Like, say, one day you get tired of storing files in Microsoft OneDrive and move to some tenuous, baling-wire hacked Goo thing. No bias there....LOL. Anyway, you get the idea: URLs go away, files are forever.
The three ones in your post that show up as links look like you might have tried to use the Img or URL buttons, and got the URL when you meant to hit Img. Edit your post (top-right of post) and see if they're URL "tags" in the square brackets around those links. You can see the difference in two references that use the same link text below, but the first is surrounded by url, while the second is by img. The "code" chunks show what it looks like in the post editor's interface
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[url]http://shop.nextwaveautomation.com/images/logo.png[/url]
http://shop.nextwaveautomation.com/images/logo.png
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[img]http://shop.nextwaveautomation.com/images/logo.png[/img]
I'll try it with one of yours:
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[img]https://1drv.ms/i/s!Ah_DERvpr7S1gfBgCUIDGDUAh-Q8FA[/img]
Nope, it looks like maybe OneDrive is returning only the alt-text for the image, or maybe even just the word "image". I'd copy the file out from OneDrive, upload them as attachments (below) and then use the "insert inline" button once the attachment is uploaded. It could be either of them's fault (forum or MS), but MS doesn't care, and the forum developers are long gone. Joyously and with verve we use what we's gots!
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One counter-intuitive thing is that if you want to show the full-sized image in the post without forcing the user to click, it has to be stored on the internet somewhere. Images stored locally, as in those we upload, can only be shown in thumbnail form. Which means, yes, images display WORSE when they have more long-term value to the group. Go figure
. Maybe they're still trying to punish us because disk storage was expensive...in the 90's.
Hope that helps
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Thom