I would like to say that I personally have known Dale for over 28 years now flying R/C with him and this is very unfortunate. As Dale admitted his biggest mistake was “trusting that the engine was in working order”. I do know that he did not attempt to run this when he first received it… a big mistake in my book but that’s water over the dam.

I hope that the gentleman who did sell this realizes that this engine was not as advertised and helps Dale out, I think Dale is being more than fair in only asking for ½ of the repair costs. In my opinion the gentleman should be responsible for the entire cost or take the engine back and refund all of Dales money. But as Dale has mentioned due to the time laps I guess ½ of the repair cost would be fair. The only scam here was perpetrated by the seller of this engine.