Good point - hand designed maybe
Consider that Dyson has hundreds of people designing vacuum cleaners and hand driers, and associated production engineering, for example. Versus a handful at Morgan?
My M3W has been reliable, and fun. But requires an open mind to potential costs. For example last weekend I discovered:
- rubber mount covers for the oil tank had partly slipped off (potentially leading to metal-to-metal wear of the oil tank - not something you want to leak long-term)
- so I undid the nuts for the oil tank straps so I could reseat the rubber mount covers. one of the captive bolts stripped. oops - something to be drilled out and replaced!
- really I dont want an oil tank resting on 2 ridges of metal (a design issue - what were they thinking?) - I want to add some metal straps lengthwise to spread the load from the ridges, as the rubber interfaces are bound to wear and/or fall off again
- meanwhile the oil feed from the tank dips under the tank mount and was fraying nicely (a design issue - metal-to-hose contact point not a good idea). added some tape to prevent it cutting in further... . other fray points looked to have had foam added so maybe this was missed in production or fell off ...
