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Thanks to everyone for their reply, this is truely a great forum :!: I'm still waiting to hear what the actual failure was. I have some further background - it blew up on my 2nd run of the day after I was fishing for about 30 min (some cool down but not cold....) I had a slight hickup when I accerat...

My 2000 Optimax blew up last week :cry: I know there were problems with the early Opti's but I was hoping that after all these years that I had dodged the bullet. I've been very careful about how I treated it, and maintenance, etc. I'd be surprised if I have more than 500 hours on it. I'm trying to ...