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Saga of “Madman” Earl Muntz and cheap tube televisions
- stmw 9y ago"Earl was such a corporate spendthrift, that it was rumored that he would walk up to engineers bench testing their circuits. After a little discussion regarding the circuit and its various components, Earl would question the engineers on whether or not certain components were truly needed. Earl always carried around a pair of wire cutters, and would often pull them out or clip one lead of a component whose usefulness he might doubt. If the circuit continued to function, the engineer would be under the gun to truly demonstrate the need for the clipped part."