On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:03:50 +1100, "K. Smith"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:43:41 +1100, "K. Smith"
wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:17:23 -0600, Del Cecchi
wrote:


~~ snippage ~~

Trying to keep the barbarians from giving you a false impression. :)

Trying to keep the actual same people who spammed Ficht from doing it
all over again:-)


Karen, I've said this before and I'll say it again.

I have great appreciation for any opinion you would care to share on
other matters pertaining to boats and engines. You have knowledge to
impart and when you want to, you share good information.

In this area you are nothing more than a loud voice making lots of
noise and no sense. My experience and the experience of others is in
direct contradiction to your constant yammering on the subject of
FICHT and I suspect that it's something personal, not professional.

Gee Tom "your experience" is 1 in 3 failed, OMC finally admitted as a
marketing strategy for their latest fix no less:-) that only 1 in 5
failed:-)

One in three failed yes. However it was not a mechanical failure - it
was an electrical failure. You yourself admitted, along with Bill,
that a stator failure is almost unheard of in any outboard engine. The
Bombardier engineers were so interested in it, they paid for the parts
and labor so they could get their hands on the stator and computer to
try and understand what happened. Which they didn't have to do
because it was an OMC engine.

The resulting voltage cascade took out the computer which I would
have expected to have happened - no manufacturer takes the proper
precautions in protecting onboard computers from huge cascade failures
like this. So it was strictly a one-off - very rare, very unusual.

You couldn't be more wrong and the unfortunate thing is that anything
you have to say worthwhile is severely diminished.

Sad really.

Later,

Tom