okay, so I broke down and called hobby-lobby yet again. Last time I was told to call back, because there was a guy who knew about the drives.

This time, the guy says "jet drive, I'm not sure I know what your talking about."

I say, "well you sell jet drives for boats and I need a new impeller."

"Well, graupner doesnt sell parts for them."

"Why I guess they figure they wont break."

"So no one knows about these drives,"

"well we used to have a guy but he left the comapny about 8 months ago"
.......silence....
maybe call back after new years and there will be more sales reps available."


Okay so this company doesnt have techs, nor sales reps that even know they sell jet drives. Later he lied and said he had tried to get parts before for them, but couldnt, but 30 seconds earlier he didnt know what a jet drive was. I'm at a loss, I really thought that hobby-lobby had good customer service, but this was ridiculous. I'm sorry, but I just had to rant. A lot of people ask me why I have a graupner drive and not a swash drive, but swash drives are only for zenoah motors. So it looks like I either have to buy several "spare"" jet drives, or give up and start making a gas powered swashdrive boat.

All in all, I think this guy just did some harm to his comapny, I mean I'm going to have to recommend to people not buy these now and I feel bad for those that did. For those that did, DONT SUCK UP A ROCK, EVER or you'll have to buy a whole new drive. Even though its' just a propeller!

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