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[–] 158 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Percussive maintenance is a real thing!

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I was just about to say that

    I worked on something that literally said "to test this thing, hit it here with a screwdriver" because it was known to be a point where a soldered joint would fail

    I used to bash the shit out of some stuff with a hammer to prove my diagnoses. It wasn't working anyway, so I couldn't break it more, and I was usually proved correct when I was able to replicate the failure

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The whole "well, it's already broken: what's the worst I can do?" is such a liberating position to be in.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have learnt how to fix a whole lot of things after realising that

    Or, I learnt other things that can go wrong, without consequences

    However, there's: "it's not working right" and there's "it's not working"... It's usually important to recognise that difference

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Was doing this with my car fob for a while before I finally broke down and re-soldered the battery contact terminal to the board yesterday.

    Also doing it to my cars blower fan for the AC. I have the replacement fan motor, but it hasn't been annoying enough yet to mess with replacing.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    And now interplanetary percussive maintenance is a thing too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Next step: roll this out over the internet.

    Actually, scratch that, that would make some teenage-run Discord servers become online Fight Clubs.

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