Replacement UL-1 arrived today....WTF?

[JimClark]

Mike is I am sure busy getting ready for a show in Toledo.
Have patience grasshopper if he said he would call I am sure he will.
Your patience, or lack of it, may be another issue

[Flying Scotsman]

Jim, patience I may not have but 5 days to make a call. I think not. By the way I loved the grasshopper reference.

Douggie

[longballlumber]

jeezzzzzzz

(insert beating a dead horse here)

[Flying Scotsman]

(insert beating a dead horse here)

Dolly would be upset at that reference

Douggie

[AndyKunz]

Doug,

Do you believe that constantly posting your issues here will resolve the problem with your boat?

Mike's a busy guy too. Maybe he's human and forgot. Give him the benefit of the doubt. If it's really important, go visit him in Toledo this weekend. If it's not that important, he'll probably be back in the office Monday or Tuesday.

Andy

[Steven Vaccaro]

Doug,

Do you believe that constantly posting your issues here will resolve the problem with your boat?

Mike's a busy guy too. Maybe he's human and forgot. Give him the benefit of the doubt. If it's really important, go visit him in Toledo this weekend. If it's not that important, he'll probably be back in the office Monday or Tuesday.

Andy

OR call Tower/Aqua directly at.
Contact Tower Hobbies by calling toll-free (USA and Canada) at 800-637-6050. International callers may call 217-398-3636. Direct FAX inquiries to 800-637-7303 or 217-356-6608.

There is a chain of command at Tower. Mike is a designer. That doesn't mean he's making the decisions about warranties.

[Flying Scotsman]

[QUOTE=AndyKunz;81438]Doug,

Do you believe that constantly posting your issues here will resolve the problem with your boat?

Mike's a busy guy too. Maybe he's human and forgot. Give him the benefit of the doubt. If it's really important, go visit him in Toledo this weekend. If it's not that important, he'll probably be back in the office Monday or Tuesday.

Andy, Toledo is too far away. I have no known issues with my UL-1 as I have done all the mods but it will be put to the test within a month.

Douggie

[AndyKunz]

Since you say you don't have any issues, what's the beef about? Because he didn't call you?!?! Why not just drop it?

Andy

[Flying Scotsman]

Since you say you don't have any issues, what's the beef about? Because he didn't call you?!?! Why not just drop it?

Andy

No problem Andy as long as people live up to to what they state, and this thread is getting stale. Aquacraft ???

Douggie

[Flying Scotsman]

Still waiting for a Hobbico/Aquaucraft answer and as you know Mike is excussed from an answer. This boat I presume with mods is OK?

Douggie

[bustitup]

Hi Doug

I am curious to know have you run your hydro yet? and did you have all the problems that are in this thread......is the boat running now or broke?

[Flying Scotsman]

Hi Doug

I am curious to know have you run your hydro yet? and did you have all the problems that are in this thread......is the boat running now or broke?

No the weather is very cold up here. I waited till some guys ran their boats and I addopted their fixes prior to running. A leason learned !!

Douggie

[Doozie870]

Hobbico is never going to anwser in public come on.. Run from/exchange it while you can.
Darrin and Co. have jumped ship! and are whipping us up something nice from china at proboat

[properchopper]

I'm sure some will disagree with me on this, but here goes : I got one of the first UL-1's and experienced and posted the first "broken off turn fin " report. Oddly enough my water jacket didn't and still doesn't leak. I had stripped motor screws, and lost a very special prop when the coupler split & spit off the shaft {during a race heat off all things}. Thing is, I actually like to tweak/modify stuff. Sorting out setups and handling issues is part of what I like to do. Now I realize that a large part of the demographic that this boat is meant to attract doesn't have the desire or wherewithall to do these things, so there's the rub. I feel for the newbie or anyone else that gets a broken boat out of the box and suffers from poor distributor support, and hope this changes soon. I also feel for Grim who pioneered a great gift for the FE community and was let down by the manufacturing follow-through. I look forward to running my "tweaked" UL-1 tomorrow and it'll hit the water with more anticipation/fun than my absolutely great running mono. Further, the UL-1 's whetted my appetite for hydros, and have one "a** kicking" one being shipped to me now that I just bought. Lookout for this one !
James Bro, good to hear from you.

[Raydee]

I have to admit after seeing my friends boat come broken out of the box I took the money I had set aside for the hull and spent it elsewhere. I want to say that anyone that is blaming Grim for designing a boat and doing what he had to do to get more guys in this hobby are crazy. I am hoping that they learned something from the first run and come out with a second version that has all the problems fixed.