[NSRCA-discussion] YS 160DZ availability

[John Ferrell]

Everything seems to work for some people.
Nothing seems to work for some people.

In my Freshman English Class (1958) at Ohio State University I was taught 
how to draw a conclusion from this kind of information...

For the record, everything don't work for me!

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Budd" <jerry at buddengineering.com>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] YS 160DZ availability


> >I know a bunch of folks who reluctantly went over to 2-c's because
>>of the hopeless availability of the DZ's. I might add with very
>>little regret once they got there. Then electric came along and the
>>"faithful" are now moving to electric. "The faithful" are the 2-c
>>guys who could not find a 2-c as good as their YS's or the long
>>time YS guys who have had enough of waiting.
>
> I guess that makes me "unfaithful".   ;-)
>
> I'm not sure but I may be the only F3A pilot to never send my YS's in
> to Futaba to have them serviced (this from 1990 to 1998).  I never
> had to, I only had one problem during that entire time, a leaky valve
> cover gasket.  Of course the 120AC's and the 140FZ were as trouble
> free as YS's get.  When I saw the problems the early DZ's had (along
> with the high price and higher fuel consumption), I decided to go
> back to two strokes.  Never regretted it for a minute.
>
> As far as not finding a 2-c as good as a YS, I never had that
> problem.  Most of my OS's (thank you Magnum#1) and all of my Webra's
> (especially the Webra's) were BETTER than the YSDZ's I saw being used.
>
> But alas, it's all nostalgic waxing now...  :-D
>
> Jerry
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