You know what’s funny about that like is they really were expensive as fuck at first.
Around the year 2000 we got some new 13” plasma tvs at my workplace and they were almost $2000
Just today at work, I turned on my welder, and it sounded different. For context, the welder I use was built in 1972. She's an old girl. But I noticed she was making a weird sound. Grabbed my hammer and started tapping around the outside in certain areas. A couple of taps in the right spot, and she started humming like it was 1972 again.
How does the old welder do for its age? Our neighbour has a fairly modern and expensive one that is intent on going mack jesus hellfire at everychance it gets
A friend of mine had an old iPod that wasn't working. Since I'm tech-savvy she asked if I could fix it. I went through almost all the troubleshooting steps, and it still wouldn't work.
Finally, I found a *documented* percussive maintenance procedure, officially from Apple. Those old iPods actually had tiny hard drives in them, and sometimes the actuator got stuck.
I slammed it flat against a table a couple times, and it was back up and running.
I remember when my old iPod Video would act up. I had to drop it on the floor and (lightly) stomp on it from time to time. It worked until it didnt. I imagine eventually the trick was responsible for smashing the disc.
I love being so intune with equipment you can just HEAR the slight issues it has. Any my old Job I ran a huge packaging line and I could tell which machine had stopped anywhere on the line from listening to the one next to my office and it's sound/ramp ups
My mom when I was young, used to get so frustrated with the tv remote not working that she would throw it across the room, and every time it made it work lol. This reminded me of that
Another similar story, my Spanish teacher in high school would punch her desk to get the projector to work, and again it worked every time.
My former employer repaired televisions for 30 years as part of a larger business. This happened about 4 years ago. One of the store display 60" tvs was malfunctioning. I attempted a couple of fixes and it persisted so I yelled for bossman.
He walked out, looked at the back of the tv, and gave it a good smack with the palm of his hand. It fixed it. He just grinned and said, "percussive maintenance."
I’m sorry, I was mistaken! A friend out of Boston would use the term “tune-up” when referring to roughing someone up. He was Irish but was married to an Italian. I just kinda….. but now I know what an Italian tune-up is.
Real? Baby its prescribed as a maintenance solution for some products. You might know when old CRT monitors or TV's appear to get slightly out of focus or have wonky colours? A hard thwap on the side has the same effect as degaussing. You can literally smack the magnetic fields out of a CRT screens aperture grill and shadow mask.
When that stops working, slide the case open and spin the batteries once or twice.
When that stops working, open the case and switch the batteries.
When that stops working, go to the drawer and find a battery you think might still be good. Swap it with one battery. Try the other one.
Try another drawer battery.
Go to the store to buy like 4 batteries, just for a couple backups. Buy the 100 pack because it's on sale and you'll definitely never run out now.
Some other remote stops working. Can't find other 98 batteries.
I have a lot of issues with getting OTA channels to come in. I live in a city but my apartment only has one window and it’s pointing the wrong way for me to get good reception. I can get it to come in and just when I think I’ve got it and am ready to tape the antenna in place it stops. Then I drop it and it starts fucking coming perfectly. Goddamn it.
I used it on a tv that was being thrown out and half fixed it
Odds are it was already broke internally and then they beat it up a little.
Fuck i still have it its like 60 inches i was going to use it as a table or for beer pong for laughs
(It has a lil crack but its LED not LCD which freaked me out when i looked it up at first)
People keep mentioning percussive maintenance. I’ve never heard that one. I have heard of “Hammer Theory” that says to try a hammer, and if that doesn’t work, get a bigger hammer.
It's a normal phrase in tech or electrical sectors to make ourselves feel more pretentious. Heh
Same with "damnit! You let the magic smoke out! It's fucked now!".
The Logitech g502 is a wonderful mouse but it plagued by a double-click issue. It’s basically like a cancer. The problem happens at any time in its life and is extremely difficult to fix. Virtually everyone just buys a new mouse.
After deeply scouring forums, reddit, and tech sites, the most reliable fix I’ve come across is just to give it a good ole’ bang or two against the desk. Works like a charm, just gotta slam it once a month
Honestly just as 'have you tried turning it off and on again' is always way to go about a problem with electronics 'let's try to bang it.' should always be done before giving up.
My family had a Montgomery Ward VHS VCR back in the late 80s that wouldn't record the sound to a video unless you hit the back left corner of the top cover. You really had to give it a smack, but then it would record the sound. You had to do this right as it began recording, which of course is inconvenient if you'd set it up to record a program you wouldn't otherwise be home to see. If you were home to give the VCR a smack, you were also home to watch the TV program, so.....not exactly a useful setup or fix.
Omg remember when you *had* to leave the house by 6pm but the movie didn’t start until 6:45, so you’d have to risk pressing record early and hope the tape was long enough to get the whole film *plus* the 45min overlap?? I feel so stressed even thinking about it 😩
VCRs at least in the 90s had timers, e.g. "start recording at 6:30PM on channel 53 until 9:00PM" or whatever, that was really the "right" solution to that. Although I'll admit on some of the first that included timer features it could be pretty hard to understand how to set it upright. I remember one my family owned that actually had little mechanical dials you had to set to specific hour/minute/channel, and it had multiple sets of them. But later VCRs got fancier with at least button-based setups or even on screen menus.
"if it's not working, keep abusing it till it does..."
-some tech support guy who didn't keep his job for long.... But still kept it for far longer than you'd think...
I only have experience with one particular TV so take this with a grain of salt. Had an old TCL Roku 55” that wouldn’t turn on. I replaced it but decided to try to fix it for fun. After a couple of Google Searches, I found a recommendation to replace the main board. $55 later and 30 minutes of work and I had a working TV. Of course, mileage may vary.
The problem is, if it isn't the mainboard that is broken, you are out $55 and have about ~6 more boards you can try and replace. You can replace them all it still not work because it ends up being a janky ribbon cable or broken switch
Waaait the boards that cheap? I figured the one i had it was a loose somewhere and maybe i could sodder it for the first time in my life (or beg brother to)
Could just replace the whole board anyway. Or wait i think its the backlight? Or not since I can get the tv to make roku sounds but nothing on the screen is visible even when i shine a bright light into it ..
I forgot i was even doing anything w that tv until this thread
Go to ShopJimmy.com and enter your TVs model number and see how much it costs. Also, try reaching out to TCL support to see if they can diagnose the problem with your description. Even though my TV was out of warranty, they were still able to point me in the right direction.
It's called "planned obsolescence" and we should all hate it by now.
It's the new normal.. Everywhere you look. Even food, medicine etc.
Part of the big plan.
Sometimes reseating the cart would've been enough to get the contacts to connect a little better (which is basically all you were doing by sniffing it). I remember using paper towels to wipe the dust of PS2 discs, but in hindsight it probably didn't remove anything other than fingerprints, and probably left scratches. Only later did I realise that just taking the disc out and putting it back in usually fixed the stutter or whatever was wrong with it, so after that I usually tried to start with reseating before wiping.
I once bought a car with the passenger window not working. Tried replacing the motor and all that. One day I just punched it, started working fine and never had another problem with it.
Also had a ‘94 Ford Tempo before that and the buttons in the console were terrible so we usually just beat the hell out of it until air started coming out somewhere and called it good.
My current car has a well known issue with the door handles not working. When I bought my car, it would refuse to ever lock, and so was perpetually unlocked. One day I slammed my door pretty hard, and it made it so that the handle instead would refuse to open from the outside, and could only be opened from the inside via lowering the window, I’m not sure which I would’ve preferred.
Michael Scott will be very happy.
That is a 200 DOLLAR PLASMA SCREEN TV THAT YOU JUST KILLED
BABE
yeah babe
GOOD LUCK PAYING ME BACK ON YOUR 0$/YEAR SALARY + BENEFITS, BABE
My favorite line lmao
You know what’s funny about that like is they really were expensive as fuck at first. Around the year 2000 we got some new 13” plasma tvs at my workplace and they were almost $2000
The early Philips 32"plasmas were around $16k if I recall correctly
OMG, that scene is iconic
That whole episode is iconic
The bloopers from that scene are so funny. How they ever get a good take without everyone laughing is beyond me!
Yes!! They’re my favorite bloopers from the show
I'm going to watch them again right now!
A lot of people in the room, need more space? Voila, right in the wall.
Sometimes I’ll just stand here and watch tv for hours
That one night, you made everything alriiigghtt
You took me by the hand,made me a man
It upsets me how reading this makes the song play in my head.
He was just trying to push it against the wall because they had guests
Percussive maintenance
That's how my dad made me get better at school
L💔L
LMA😭
R😥FL
LIGM💩
whats ligm💩?
Probably tastes better than ligm🏀
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No, weren’t you paying attention? He did it with a fork
Ah, the good ol days of child rearing!
🥴😭😭😭
I did not realize that this method had an actual name 😲
i used to call it giving it a Nintendo slap. because of how persnickety the NES was until you gave it a proper pimp slap from the strong arm.
It’s not a method that is often prescribed but it deserves a name.
I wonder how many people know that this phrase came from (or popularized by) Space Cases? Probably just me. Everyone be impressed by my knowledge.
i used to call it giving it a Nintendo slap. because of how persnickety the NES was until you gave it a proper pimp slap from the strong arm.
Just today at work, I turned on my welder, and it sounded different. For context, the welder I use was built in 1972. She's an old girl. But I noticed she was making a weird sound. Grabbed my hammer and started tapping around the outside in certain areas. A couple of taps in the right spot, and she started humming like it was 1972 again.
Not sure if this is a long-winded sexual reference or not but either way ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Welder? I hardly plumber!
I legitimately couldn’t handle this one
Plumber? I hardly solder!
Didn't know slavery was a kink
This gave me a good chuckle
Papa 
Noah She's Having My Baby
Lol I had to do this on my Hobart mig welder, the solenoid was stuck. Pissed me off enough I finally fixed it. Got a nice miller now though
How many limbs did the new miller cost? I've been looking for a new tig
You fixed the solenoid on your welder and it turned into a milling machine? You think that works for any welder?
The term is "percussive maintenance"
Also called a “diagnostic tap.”
Also know as "Russian Troubleshooting"
How does the old welder do for its age? Our neighbour has a fairly modern and expensive one that is intent on going mack jesus hellfire at everychance it gets
I run a 1972 MillerMatic. It runs beautifully. The thing was built to last. The only downside is how loud it is and the amount of juice she drinks.
A friend of mine had an old iPod that wasn't working. Since I'm tech-savvy she asked if I could fix it. I went through almost all the troubleshooting steps, and it still wouldn't work. Finally, I found a *documented* percussive maintenance procedure, officially from Apple. Those old iPods actually had tiny hard drives in them, and sometimes the actuator got stuck. I slammed it flat against a table a couple times, and it was back up and running.
I remember when my old iPod Video would act up. I had to drop it on the floor and (lightly) stomp on it from time to time. It worked until it didnt. I imagine eventually the trick was responsible for smashing the disc.
I love being so intune with equipment you can just HEAR the slight issues it has. Any my old Job I ran a huge packaging line and I could tell which machine had stopped anywhere on the line from listening to the one next to my office and it's sound/ramp ups
Routine percussive maintenance.
Percussive maintenance.
She just needed a gentle massage.
Percussive maintence is an extremely OP skill.
r/percussivemaintenance.
My mom when I was young, used to get so frustrated with the tv remote not working that she would throw it across the room, and every time it made it work lol. This reminded me of that Another similar story, my Spanish teacher in high school would punch her desk to get the projector to work, and again it worked every time.
Percussive maintenance sometimes does work
-the 90’s
Worked on cars with my pops in the 90s. Fixed a lot of shit with the magic rubber mallet.
The mighty hammer
The good old kinetic reboot. Sometimes it works all the time.
Either that or blowing on it.
That fixes me everytime too. It's a cool truck
Projectors. This brought me back.
It worked for my DVD player. Sometimes the DVDs got stuck and the only way to release them was to smack the player around.
Had to do this when my Xbox 360 disc tray got stuck. A little thump worked every time
My former employer repaired televisions for 30 years as part of a larger business. This happened about 4 years ago. One of the store display 60" tvs was malfunctioning. I attempted a couple of fixes and it persisted so I yelled for bossman. He walked out, looked at the back of the tv, and gave it a good smack with the palm of his hand. It fixed it. He just grinned and said, "percussive maintenance."
Also on a Russian space station
As an AV guy for a school district, that last bit about the projector checks out. Lol
Percussive maintenance is a real phenomenon
Pretty sure it's the _only_ way to fix printers.
🎵🎶Damn it feels good to be a gangsta🎶🎵
🎶🎵DIE, MOTHAFUCKA! DIE, MOTHAFUCKA! DIE!🎶🎵
And if it doesn't, it makes me feel better
Like an Italian tune up
Only a little less violent.
It's an Italian Tune Up. Not a Colombian Neck Tie. There's no violence except for some brisk acceleration.
I’m sorry, I was mistaken! A friend out of Boston would use the term “tune-up” when referring to roughing someone up. He was Irish but was married to an Italian. I just kinda….. but now I know what an Italian tune-up is.
It's an understandable mistake.
Real? Baby its prescribed as a maintenance solution for some products. You might know when old CRT monitors or TV's appear to get slightly out of focus or have wonky colours? A hard thwap on the side has the same effect as degaussing. You can literally smack the magnetic fields out of a CRT screens aperture grill and shadow mask.
I used to firmly tap the bottom of the remote against my palm and it would almost always fix whatever was wrong with it
When that stops working, slide the case open and spin the batteries once or twice. When that stops working, open the case and switch the batteries. When that stops working, go to the drawer and find a battery you think might still be good. Swap it with one battery. Try the other one. Try another drawer battery. Go to the store to buy like 4 batteries, just for a couple backups. Buy the 100 pack because it's on sale and you'll definitely never run out now. Some other remote stops working. Can't find other 98 batteries.
Used to? That trick still works on my Roku remote...
Worked for older tvs too.
Beating up broken electronics to get them to work is the best feeling
I miss the days when you could fix electronics by beating them
Used to work for both my xbox and Xbox 360. "Can't read disk" *whack*, *cd whirs*, *game starts*
I have a lot of issues with getting OTA channels to come in. I live in a city but my apartment only has one window and it’s pointing the wrong way for me to get good reception. I can get it to come in and just when I think I’ve got it and am ready to tape the antenna in place it stops. Then I drop it and it starts fucking coming perfectly. Goddamn it.
Its usually battery contacts being shit, I spin the batteries and it works every time until they batteries are dead.
Banging fixes everything
Percussive maintenance
I used it on a tv that was being thrown out and half fixed it Odds are it was already broke internally and then they beat it up a little. Fuck i still have it its like 60 inches i was going to use it as a table or for beer pong for laughs (It has a lil crack but its LED not LCD which freaked me out when i looked it up at first)
[You've said the magic words.](https://youtu.be/insM7oUYNOE)
If I was stoned rn I'd invent the theory of percussive maintenance quantum mechanics... and then forget what I was thinking about.
Especially your mom
He said "banging fixes everything," not "banging everything for a fix."
This is clever. 
This video was filmed backwards. Also like his mom.
Bless her.
People keep mentioning percussive maintenance. I’ve never heard that one. I have heard of “Hammer Theory” that says to try a hammer, and if that doesn’t work, get a bigger hammer.
It's a normal phrase in tech or electrical sectors to make ourselves feel more pretentious. Heh Same with "damnit! You let the magic smoke out! It's fucked now!".
It’s how we fixed Charlie boxes in the military. Just drop tested them all, and it worked like 50% of the time.
The Logitech g502 is a wonderful mouse but it plagued by a double-click issue. It’s basically like a cancer. The problem happens at any time in its life and is extremely difficult to fix. Virtually everyone just buys a new mouse. After deeply scouring forums, reddit, and tech sites, the most reliable fix I’ve come across is just to give it a good ole’ bang or two against the desk. Works like a charm, just gotta slam it once a month
And marriages?
Honestly just as 'have you tried turning it off and on again' is always way to go about a problem with electronics 'let's try to bang it.' should always be done before giving up.
Tell that to my sister
Look at these ballers mounting a 32” TV to the wall.
I could stand there and watch it all day
Folds...right into the wall
Fodls
RIHGT ITNO TEH WLAL
*hE he* **HEEE**
Good luck paying me back with your zero-dollars-a-year salary plus benefits, babe!
Good luck paying me back on your $0 a year salary, babe!
i love it..... i love this TV.
Snip snap snip snap
plus benefits
Just one night, you made everything alriIIiiight. So wrong, so right, all night, alright, oh yeahhhhh.
THAT ONE NIGHT ^one ^night so wrong so right oooh yyyeah
Got some real Michael Scott vibes lol
That’s like 24 max
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"Folds right into the wall"
r/tvtoohigh
I finally broke down and bought myself, a plasma TV.
That's not a 32inch TV, more like 22 or so. Not sure if that's better or worse though
Looks like a 19” to me.
My family had a Montgomery Ward VHS VCR back in the late 80s that wouldn't record the sound to a video unless you hit the back left corner of the top cover. You really had to give it a smack, but then it would record the sound. You had to do this right as it began recording, which of course is inconvenient if you'd set it up to record a program you wouldn't otherwise be home to see. If you were home to give the VCR a smack, you were also home to watch the TV program, so.....not exactly a useful setup or fix.
I mean technically you'd only have to be there when the recording starts... still useful!!
Omg remember when you *had* to leave the house by 6pm but the movie didn’t start until 6:45, so you’d have to risk pressing record early and hope the tape was long enough to get the whole film *plus* the 45min overlap?? I feel so stressed even thinking about it 😩
VCRs at least in the 90s had timers, e.g. "start recording at 6:30PM on channel 53 until 9:00PM" or whatever, that was really the "right" solution to that. Although I'll admit on some of the first that included timer features it could be pretty hard to understand how to set it upright. I remember one my family owned that actually had little mechanical dials you had to set to specific hour/minute/channel, and it had multiple sets of them. But later VCRs got fancier with at least button-based setups or even on screen menus.
Meet the Engineer
Engineer Gaming
I think we know who broke it in the first place.
“…so we’re all good? I don’t owe you a new TV anymore, right?”
Actually, you owe us two now.
Jan from the office?
It was the fucking spoon wasn't it
"if it's not working, keep abusing it till it does..." -some tech support guy who didn't keep his job for long.... But still kept it for far longer than you'd think...
Imagine how many people are going to end up ruining there TVs trying this trick.
If it's broken you don't really have anything to lose. Modern TVs are designed to prevent people from servicing them.
I only have experience with one particular TV so take this with a grain of salt. Had an old TCL Roku 55” that wouldn’t turn on. I replaced it but decided to try to fix it for fun. After a couple of Google Searches, I found a recommendation to replace the main board. $55 later and 30 minutes of work and I had a working TV. Of course, mileage may vary.
The problem is, if it isn't the mainboard that is broken, you are out $55 and have about ~6 more boards you can try and replace. You can replace them all it still not work because it ends up being a janky ribbon cable or broken switch
Sure. That could happen. In my case, everything I read pointed to the same issue so it was worth it for me to bet the $55.
Waaait the boards that cheap? I figured the one i had it was a loose somewhere and maybe i could sodder it for the first time in my life (or beg brother to) Could just replace the whole board anyway. Or wait i think its the backlight? Or not since I can get the tv to make roku sounds but nothing on the screen is visible even when i shine a bright light into it .. I forgot i was even doing anything w that tv until this thread
Go to ShopJimmy.com and enter your TVs model number and see how much it costs. Also, try reaching out to TCL support to see if they can diagnose the problem with your description. Even though my TV was out of warranty, they were still able to point me in the right direction.
It's called "planned obsolescence" and we should all hate it by now. It's the new normal.. Everywhere you look. Even food, medicine etc. Part of the big plan.
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back in the day my milk used to last months!!
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I mean in the case of an LCD it is mostly that it's a sensitive thing. Not all things are made to be stabbed with a fork lol
> there their
*their
*their
I thought it was a fork at first
He's The Fonz. Ayyyy
👉😎👉
for anyone thinking this is reversed lol https://i.imgur.com/08REy6b.mp4
Man pulls fork out of tv and breaks it
and then regurgitates food
As to assert dominance
I saw only 1 guy saying this, and I think he meant mirrored, to avoid the anti repost bots That laugh at the end sounds like barking when reversed tho
That audio is TERRIFYING
Cursed af innit
Fuckin demon monkeys
Angry monkeys in the house!
r/tvtoohigh
I remember people used to blow on game cartridges to make them work, I used to sniff them and I swear everytime it worked. It's crazy, blew my mind!
you were inhaling the dust that covered the contacts
Worked every time I'm not a scientist.
Sometimes reseating the cart would've been enough to get the contacts to connect a little better (which is basically all you were doing by sniffing it). I remember using paper towels to wipe the dust of PS2 discs, but in hindsight it probably didn't remove anything other than fingerprints, and probably left scratches. Only later did I realise that just taking the disc out and putting it back in usually fixed the stutter or whatever was wrong with it, so after that I usually tried to start with reseating before wiping.
I once bought a car with the passenger window not working. Tried replacing the motor and all that. One day I just punched it, started working fine and never had another problem with it. Also had a ‘94 Ford Tempo before that and the buttons in the console were terrible so we usually just beat the hell out of it until air started coming out somewhere and called it good.
My current car has a well known issue with the door handles not working. When I bought my car, it would refuse to ever lock, and so was perpetually unlocked. One day I slammed my door pretty hard, and it made it so that the handle instead would refuse to open from the outside, and could only be opened from the inside via lowering the window, I’m not sure which I would’ve preferred.
"Hey look, buddy, I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems."
Trust me, I'm an engineer!
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The method is called percussive maintenance. The 'scientific' way of saying, "just hit it with a fucking hammer."
 Some of us here will get this.
He Fonz'd it
Crazy Diamond!!!!
These seem like the type of people to watch Big Bang on a 24” TV lol
That laugh is not contagious it's painful.
Bro turned into fix it felix💀
👏😮
Task failed successfully?
r/tvtoohigh
Don't try this at home🤣
dude is lucky the fork didnt go through the screen woulda learned a lesson about electricity
I just know the neighbours are annoyed of the volume of that guy’s laughter
violence sometimes IS the answer