[SEL] Buyer's remorse

Russell Gilbert russell at ncable.com.au
Wed Oct 31 14:02:07 PDT 2007


George I can feel your pain from here! and what is worst is that I 
can see some time back you were under so much stress you didn't 
realise the stickney and lorenze were not vertical either !!!!!!  oh 
bother this hobbie does real real weird shit to the brain.
Russell


At 02:39 AM 1/11/2007, you wrote:
>
>Here's another topic:
>
>Have you ever bought an engine that you later wish you'd never bought?
>
>In my case I bought a 2hp New Holland engine. It's a nice engine.
>
>http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4019318&a=32584162&p=7584525
>6&f=0
>
>So.... Where's the remorse?
>
>As I posted earlier, I've been leaning more towards vertical engines
>which the NH obviously is not.
>
>This past weekend I saw a vertical R&V engine I would sure like to have
>and could have bought if I hadn't bought the NH engine. Having limited
>funds for buying engines can be a problem when there are so many engines
>out there to buy ;-)
>
>Several years ago I picked up a 5hp Galloway for a friend.  My friend
>had made the deal and I went to get the engine and pay the seller.  The
>seller delivered the engine to a show that I was at and I was busy doing
>stuff when the seller showed up with the engine.  I had him transfer it
>to my pickup bed and paid him for the engine.
>
>After the seller left I had time to look at the engine and found that it
>was basically a piece of crap.  There were broken, cracked, repaired,
>missing, etc. parts all over the engine.  There was hardly a piece of
>the engine that didn't have some problem or repair made to it.
>
>I've always regretted getting that engine and wish that I'd told the
>seller to just keep it as it was in much worse condition than the photos
>had shown.
>
>George
>
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Russell Gilbert
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