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Ever fix something and not know how?
#392442 - 11/05/21 12:12 PM
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My subwoofer (Logitech X-540 speakers) stopped working quite a while ago. More than a year or two. Couple of days ago, I noticed the rear-left speaker had like a weak signal or something. Of course, I tried disconnecting and re-connecting everything multiple times (whenever something annoys me and I remember there is a problem). Took apart the subwoofer, praying that I'd see an obviously bad CAP that I could replace, which I didn't. Put it back together. Opened up the remote volume control thing. Nothing. Blew on the 2 pots just for good measure, and put it back together too.
Now the damn things just work. 
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Re: Ever fix something and not know how?
[Re: URherenow]
#392446 - 11/05/21 03:18 PM
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I do that often enough that SWMBO now routinely brings me something broken with the admonition to "take it apart and look at it and put it back together again". 
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Re: Ever fix something and not know how?
[Re: URherenow]
#392597 - 11/11/21 11:46 PM
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Ever hit an ancient CRT TV screen that was misbehaving on the head, in order to fix the picture ?
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Re: Ever fix something and not know how?
[Re: NewMameUser]
#392599 - 11/12/21 02:46 AM
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Congratulations!
You've just joined the the Percussive Maintenance Union...
If it doesn't work, hit it.
If it still doesn't work, hit it harder!
Welcome aboard...
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Pessimist: Oh, this can't get any worse!
Optimist: Yes, it can!
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Re: Ever fix something and not know how?
[Re: NewMameUser]
#392602 - 11/12/21 09:56 AM
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> Ever hit an ancient CRT TV screen that was misbehaving on the head, in order to fix
> the picture ?
That’s usually caused by dry solder joints, microfractures, or connectors that have worked themselves loose. Hitting the TV jostles stuff around so it makes contact again.
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Re: Ever fix something and not know how?
[Re: Vas Crabb]
#392606 - 11/13/21 01:33 AM
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> > Ever hit an ancient CRT TV screen that was misbehaving on the head, in order to fix
> > the picture ?
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> That’s usually caused by dry solder joints, microfractures, or connectors that have
> worked themselves loose. Hitting the TV jostles stuff around so it makes contact
> again.
Oh. Well I honestly did not expect a honest scientific explanation for this, but thank you for that nonetheless.
But youre talking to the person who's father once fired a shotgun to his car, because it failed to start one morning.
[ no, not really, but im desperately trying to be funny and quoting someone else (dan simmons, fall of hyperion ? i cant remember ) ]
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Re: Ever fix something and not know how?
[Re: Bad A Billy]
#392607 - 11/13/21 01:37 AM
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> Congratulations!
>
> You've just joined the the Percussive Maintenance Union...
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> If it doesn't work, hit it.
> If it still doesn't work, hit it harder!
>
> Welcome aboard...
Well, this actually works, up until a point. And when you have hit the thing so hard so many times it doesn't recover anymore, it's usually effed up beyond all recognition, even to the real repair man.
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Heh. I was an Aviation Structural Mechanic. My rating badge is winged crossed mauls.
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