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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Percussive maintenance is a real thing!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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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