[Healeys] Gauges and Morris

[Curtis Arndt]

OK Everyone,

I never said he was a Con Man, someone just asked if he was.  Here's what
happened with Morris...







*"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.  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.  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.Good luck
having him make good on this.*"

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.

Curt

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Steve Gerow <steveg at abrazosdata.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> Now I had a different impression of his late ex-wife, who ran MoMa in
> Albuquerque. Maybe the work Curt had done involved her.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >>>
>
>
> Con man?
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
>
>
> --
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>
>
> Steve Gerow
>
> Altadena, CA, USA
>
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