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Percussive maintenance is a real thing!
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
The whole "well, it's already broken: what's the worst I can do?" is such a liberating position to be in.
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
"it's not working right" is conversely a terrible position to be in, you can't leave it as it is but you also risk fucking it up further by trying to fix it
Intermittent faults are the absolute worst