I'm not interested in keeping it as a collectors item. I want to use it. I just don't want to buy this engine and find out it not a reliable engine that OS owners claim they are. It's an early model engine, but its new, and I just want to know if I can expect the reliability the newer OS engines are. So if anyone has bought one years ago, in this type of box, i would like to know if they had good results with this engine.

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