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What a frustrating deal! I purchased a set of raw props from socco72, and he sent them wrapped in a paper towel and tape. Nothing wrong with that. I set them on the table and my live-in female companion saw the cute little wrapper and thought it should be thrown in the trash. :angry...

Title says it all with a bunch of acronyms. I need a matched pair of counter-rotating X430s, de-tongued, sharpened and balanced. I'd prep them myself, but I just have too many other irons in the fire at this time.

Mark, The counter-rotating prop set arrived today. Thanks much. I hope I wasn't too hard on you. I appreciate the nice work. Just FYI, they are going on a "chopped", twin-motored BBY Micro Scat Cat. I'm using the Santee Spec ultra-cheap Chinese outrunners and a 2500 mah LiPo. It should be...

Thanks Mark, I know those little "backwards" props are hard to find.

I think Mark may need an X430R to complete my order (still waiting on the remainder of my order). Anybody have a raw one they can send him?

Just a little update: Mark has shipped some of the props I ordered, thank you very much, and is waiting for Octura to supply an odd-ball prop to complete my order. Mark did a good job, and I am satisfied. Thanks!

Yes I do. I heard you sold it to someone else who painted it and changed it all around. I sure liked that little boat, I hope you got some fun out of it too. Maybe I'm just getting too cynical in my old age. Based on what Mark has written, I have no doubts he is a decent guy like everybody...

Mark, Thanks for that. It tells me a lot about you. When you do go back in business (employees? machine shop? oursourcing to India?), I would still buy props from you. -B

Thanks Mark. I hope there are no hard feelings. :)

Torrey Pines, Spring '07

John is still running the shop under the name Discount Hobbies. I'm strictly an electric powered guy. I never got into internal combustion power for aircraft or boats. Go to my gallery and I'll post a photo of me at Torrey the day of the Blanik incident.

I spent a lot of money in Westcoast Hobbies when Roman owned it. I have thousands of hours flying slope at Torrey. I started back in the '70s. Names like Neu, Mangenelli, Nelson, Richardson, Banks, Edberg, Fogel and others come to mind. Last season, I was flying a full-sized Blanik at Torrey...

Cliff, I have not called Mark a crook or a liar.....yet. I called him a flake. There's a difference. One is intentionally defrauding and/or damaging someone, the other is just scatter-brained and doesn't know any better. Maybe he has supplied over 7,000 props. I've never seen one that I...

Bill Knoll I got the "Dr. Jet" moniker when I was President of the Silent Electric Flyers of San Diego. I don't hide behind the Jet name, I wear it as a badge of honor. What is your definition of "slow"? That's why I sent him the buck-thirty sight unseen. I think this topic has wound its...

Tim, In the big picture, a couple of props are relatively unimportant. I can re-work my own, no problem. As I said before, I wanted to try some of Mark's props since they came highly recommended. I'll give him more time to respond. I mean, afterall, Christmas was just the other day...

Friends of Mark, et.al. Mark probably is a decent, "stand-up" guy, I'll take you at your word, although believing in what total strangers tell me is how I wound up writing this drivel in the first place. He's just not a good businessman at all. I won't call him a theif or a liar (just yet)...

There’s a bit more to this story that I left out, because I thought it was irrelevant. When I first contacted Mark, all I was looking for was a price. His immediate response was a price quote (not cheap, but then if his work is as good as others have said, the price was acceptable), and...

In all fairness to Mark, there was another prop in that order; but as I said, it has been so long, I forgot what it was and where I planned to use it. :(

Those of you who have stood up for Mark, you know him better than I do. You may be 100% correct about the kind of person he is. On the other hand, all I know is what I see. Here's what I see: I sent some guy I don't know from Adam, a hundred and thirty-some-odd dollars for a couple of crummy...

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