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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Latop surface component breaks off


Franc Zabkar wrote:

On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:14:24 -0500, Rich Webb
put finger to keyboard and composed:

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:03:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:


If the thing runs without it, consider just leaving it that way. I'd say the odds of it still meeting FCC and CFR requirements are about 90 %


Very likely. Also, Muntzing. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing


He sounds more like an accountant than an engineer.



No, he was a cheapskate. He started the race to the bottom of the
barrel in quality consumer electronics. Muntz TVs were a real bitch to
service. By the time the crap hit a shop, it had multiple, interactive
problems, and the owners were as cheap as Muntz so they wanted them
repaired for $2 or less. Very few shops would touch them, away from his
retail stores on the US West coast.