ORIGINAL: Pat Roy
I know of one shop with one person that has the ability to rebuild about 100 engines a month. That shop does not make new engines, though. If it was my business and my shop I would for darn sure want to clear my tables of old issues before I started the distribution of a new product regardless of how many new engines I had made up and ready to ship.
The moment the first engine is delivered a manufacturer can anticipate calls about problems from the buyers. That's especially true with the less expensive enginbes because those will be the ones bought by people without the necessary means to aquire the upper level engines. That often also equates with people that have limited to zero knowledge of what to do with their new engine and burn the things up "breaking them in" on the bench. You see it here in this forum all the time.
If someone is having buyers remorse over a pre release deposit then ask for your money back. Ye of little faith....as the story goes. If you're not having a problem with a slight delay, as I would not have a problem, especially with this manufacturer, then simply wait a bit longer
BTW, now I know why I was told to watch for JrJohn

I love it when someone not in the business can determine how best to manage someone else's business. I gotta go change a spark plug.
Yes, thats correct, there are some upset people because Scott E and myself were talking about a particular Yak and it being scale or out of scale. Scott was nice enough to supply the demensions of the full scale plane and did the math. The results hurt some feelings.