RE: Help with purchases for beginner
I would recommend sticking to the OS plugs also. I use A3 plugs in all of my 2-strokes and the F plug for my 4-strokes. I have just a bit over 90 hours worth of flying this year and I've replaced exactly one plug all summer, an A3 in one of my OS 46 FX motors.
If you're going through that many plugs something is definitely wrong.
Ken