Manufacturer's Report on Heater Dispute - Dispute from Walter Moberg, Thomas Stroud about MHA Direction
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What I saw happening to the MHA was an increasing propensity to close ranks and become very guild-ish. This was the exact problem that was happening in Europe. The guild acted as if they knew everything and that no one else knew anything. Before long (around 1988) the suppliers for handbuilt heater products (Roschmann & Schmid, which had been in business since 1903) went under. The reason that they went under was the fact that they were losing their business to Modular units for their do-it-yourself market. This did not happen because the average person wanted to build their own unit, but because they did not want to deal with the guild and their standards. They limited their ranks so much that they had very few builders and the customer typically had to wait for 6 months to a year to have a heater built.
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