Help - my Morso has seized

[Keith Hewitt]

Just been deleting a load of emails and read this one. Thought its worth sharing .The writer is Tony Gallagher a friend of mine from years ago. He sold mouldings all over the Middle East 1970- 1990 when mouldings were even made in UK. He worked for Magnolia, who were a huge UK distributor and exporter, later bought by Larson Juhl.
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I have a great Morso story. As Export Sales Executive for the Magnolia Group, I sold a Morso to a framer in Kuwait in the late 1980s.
Some time after delivery, I received a message that the Morso was totally inoperable as it had seized. I suggested every solution I could come up with, to no avail.
Eventually, I flew out to Kuwait to resolve the issue. Shortly after my arrival at the client's gallery, I realised that the long retaining bolt that secures the blades in transit was still in place. Once I had removed this, the Morso functioned perfectly.

Now the worrying issue here was that my client kept the gallery where the Morso was situated as a business on the side, as his daytime employment was with Kuwait Air, servicing engines on Airbuses...... :faintthud:

[prospero]

That's a good one Keith.

I've heard examples of people who are highly qualified in highly technical fields who can't wire an electrical plug.

[JFeig]

I, as well, have known several individuals who had impeccable educational degrees with no common sense.

As an example one of my mothers friends was a Phi Betta Kappa liberal arts major in college. Dumb as a doorbell in real life.