JBRUNDT , I wholeheartedly agree with your opinion. You don't always get what you pay for , but you always pay for what you get. BTW the only reasons for me stripping a "perfectly good" ARF is that it's the first one i've ever owned (usually build) and when fellow modellers on RCU started posting on structural woes i thought it might be prudent to have a look under the covering.
Just as well i did! You certainly can't judge a book by it's cover.(no pun intended) My situation in that i live in Australia dictates that it would probably be pointless in trying to claim some sort of warranty from a company in the USA in the event of any failure. I mean if you guys have trouble dealing with a hostile manufacturer in your own backyard , what hope do you think one person in Australia would have? Better to accept that you bought a dud first time round and be responsible and make it safe, even if it does defeat the purpose of buying an ARF to save building time. Having said that however, i think that Cermark should at least give the guy another Pitts in the interests of customer relations.I run my own business and have eaten crow in the past to keep a customer happy , even when he was at fault , just to show him that we actually want his return business and care about our product reputation. Maybe i'm just getting cynical in my old age but it seems like it's getting harder to find genuine people to deal with these days !