ORIGINAL: RaceCity
I don't believe the "FX debacle" hurt OS's popularity one iota since 99% of the owners have never heard of such a problem. In the hundreds (!!) of OS's I've been exposed to over the years...I've yet to see it. If the motor gets replaced, it's because it's crashed into oblivion or the wrong size for the current airplane.
Not to get into that peeled liner crap again, but...in the final analysis, people like to buy the same thing that other folks are using successfully and that is almost invariably....OS.
Just to qualify this.....of all my motors...only 2 are OS. Just because they're older than many of the current fliers should say nothing about longevity/reliability of the product.
---------------
Do a Google search looking for peeled FX liners some years ago for rec.models.rc.air and even on the RCU forums. I'm not hallucinating one tiny bit. It was a very big issue.
What made it worse was the distributor's effort at denying there was a problem, then they insisted that it was the users' fault. The problem has been rampant for many years and through many OS models. This is not debatable, unless you are one of those revisionist folks, which I doubt very much.
I only had one OS two-stroke no ringed liner peel on me, as mentioned before and that was with an OS .32F ABN that I bought in 1992. Since then I haven't bought any ringless OS engines with one exception (which I forgot to mention in a previous post) and that was the new FL-70. I haven't ran that engine yet, so the jury is still out.
Denying that this happens doesn't help OS deal with their problems. I have no idea if the problem still persists. I do like OS engines very much, in general. Their handling characteristics are simply sweet, bordering on divine.
I was very sorry to see this thread start up. I had hoped that the peeling problem was behind them. It may be, who knows?