| What neither you nor Mike seems to understand is that what | Doug said was not meant as a put down. Pity.
Right. It was not a put down, and I was not offering pity either.
It seems that whenever you're looking at products of some particular type, there's the low end, the middle end and the high end stuff. The low end stuff generally performs poorly, the middle end stuff performs a lot better and costs a little more, and then the high end stuff performs a bit better than the middle end stuff, but costs a whole lot more. Ulitimately there's almost always a `sweet spot' where you pay a little more than the low end stuff, but get most of the performance of the high end stuff.
This seems to be most pronounced in things like computer CPUs (where it's not so confused by many different brands), but it seems to apply to R/C engines too. And in the case of the 0.40 sized two stroke engine, the `sweet spot' appears to be the Thunder Tiger 0.46 or 0.36 Pro engines. I've heard the GMS engines are good too but have no personal experience with them.
The OS LA engines are definately the low end. I've got a few, and they work, but they just don't work that well. It just seems that any ball bearing engine is a lot better than any bushing engine, and well worth the small amount of extra money.
It's also a pity because I was thinking I had some old engines that Mike might find useful that I'd give him -- after all, he only lives about 30 miles away, and it sounds like money is tight. If he's going to have a marginal engine, he might as well get it for free or at least cheap. But I hadn't really done anything more than consider it, so I shouldn't be surprised that he went out and bought something.
| Mike looks for issues to fight over, as I have recently | discovered.
I hadn't noticed it before (as I've talked to Mike here before, many months ago), but I've certainly noticed it recently. And since it's even been directed at me lately, I don't really feel so helpful anymore.
| I have no time for that behavior or attitude.
Looking for issues to fight about isn't so bad, as long as you pick good ones. I wouldn't consider following up to spam just to say `spam!' a good fight, but some seem to differ.
| And I really don't care if you don't like it, Mike, so save your | fingers some unnecessary typing.
Sounds reasonable, though people rarely seem to listen to this sort of request. Getting the last word in is pretty important to many, even if it ends up cluttering the group with lots of off-topic junk.