<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>OK Everyone,<br><br></div>I never said he was a Con Man, someone just asked if he was. Here's what happened with Morris...<br><span class="im"><br><i><span>"First of all he used to be partnered with Margaret Lucas, hence her
business MO-MA, for MOrris and MArgaret. She dumped him years ago due
to incompetence. I know, I used her for years in LA and she told me
personally. <br><br></span>My one interaction with him was on my BN1 gauges,
he ruined the faces, glued the wrong reflex lenses in for ignition and
high beam (after I told him which ones to use) and then leaked glue all
over the near perfect faces, ruining them. He then never made good on
finding me new faces. I found them myself at my considerable expense. I
also hand made the correct odometer reset knob which was missing (It was quite a nice piece of craftsmanship) and
one of his ham-fisted idiots ruined it trying to install it on the
shaft. <br><span><br>When my craftsmanship exceeds that of the so called
professionals that I'm paying good money to, then I raise the BS flag.
He was arrogant and unrepentant during the whole process.<br><br></span><span>Good luck having him make good on this.</span></i>"</span><br><br></div>Now there were other issues too, but I was looking for Concours quality, briefed him on this before hand, and he said he was up to the task... He was NOT! So, if you just want driver quality, and don't care about details and/or getting things exactly correct, then I guess Morris Mintz is your man. But as I already stated... he screwed up, admitted as such, and then just gave up and never made good on his mistakes. Now Margaret Lucas (MO-MA) in her later years was no better either, and I stopped using her too. I last time I used MO-MA over 20 years ago.<br><br></div>Curt<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Steve Gerow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steveg@abrazosdata.com" target="_blank">steveg@abrazosdata.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Several friends and I have had gauges satisfactorily done by Morris and I can see how his personality might occasionally be an issue, but definitely not a con man. Recently the Austin Healey Association of Southern California had a tech session at a member’s house and Morris addressed around 20 interested guys for an hour on how he calibrates the speedometers and what the factors are.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now I had a different impression of his late ex-wife, who ran MoMa in Albuquerque. Maybe the work Curt had done involved her.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ira – have you made sure you grounded everything properly? Maybe you want to make a bench-test rig where you move the sender arm and the gauge moves. I troubleshot mine years ago by running a test wire from the sender over the seats directly to the back of the gauge.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>>><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br>Con man?<br>Kees Oudesluijs<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">--<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Steve Gerow<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Altadena, CA, USA<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">BN6 – 29D w 4whl disc brakes<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Check out my galleries:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.pbase.com/stevegerow/" target="_blank">http://www.pbase.com/stevegerow/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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