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Re: [world-cruising] Re: force 10 stoves

From: Mark Parker (no email)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2008 - 11:39:33 EST

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    As I, too, am in the market for a new cooker, how many others are
    unhappy with force 10? I did a poll on SSCA and it was the most popular
    by quite a margin. What other units are folks HAPPY with?
    Fair Winds,
    Mark Parker

    Chuck & Linda wrote:
    >
    >
    > Hi Phil -
    >
    > We are one of the unhappy customers with Force Ten.
    >
    > We bought a new Force Ten Stove a number of years ago and have not gone
    > 2 months without something being broken. In fact we have a 3 1/2 page
    > word doc with correspondence to Force Ten of all the problems. Most
    > everything wrong with the unit has to do with the oven and broiler.
    > Think we may have a lemon and if we were somewhere we could easily
    > replace it we would deep six it in a moment. The only thing it does
    > well is go out! The old stove/oven worked well for 15 years but started
    > to look a bit shabby and hence the purchase of the POS stove. Bad
    > choice!
    >
    > But the right choice is propane and you can get propane or butane most
    > everywhere we have been in the South Pacific.
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > Chuck
    > Jacaranda
    > Mazatlan
    >
    >


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