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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by gopalv on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @01:29PM (#21576369)
> whacking the C: drive with a screwdriver handle, and punched the power.

Disk heads have been "sticking" like that forever[1], I guess. And it's a good bit that it will stick back down soon and plow right into a set of cylinders.

And the internals of disks have gotten more finicky (helium filled), faster spinning aerodynamically lifted heads etc.

[1] - http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010326

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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by jgalt212 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @02:02PM (#21576849)
whacking the side of a TV also was a common "solution" for TV's back in the CRT days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/2b3cpi/why_...

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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by Shendare on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @02:49PM (#21577438)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7167193

Percussive Maintenance

(uncountable) (humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device or person work.

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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:09PM (#21578320)
Device or person? I've been tempted on the "or person" part, but never actually tried it...
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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by klyrs on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:49PM (#21579190)
"Beatings will continue until morale improves"
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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by dotancohen on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:11PM (#21578856)
Pete Conrad famously had to smack around some surface experiments during Apollo 12.
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Re:The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver by RHSeeger on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:39PM (#21578599)
Growing up, we had a CRT that my father had built from a kit. Occasionally, the image would tint green-ish. When this happened, my father would slide the cabinet 45 degrees out (so he could get behind it, and then turn a blow dryer on the back of it. Given a little bit of time (5 minutes? it was a long time ago) the picture would go back to normal.

Also, he helped me fix a problem with my car using a piece from the fish tank. I hope one day to be as amazing as my father was.

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