I just remembered when I was a kid(Im on my 30’s now) we had this old “box style” television. As it got older, there were times that a white thing will appear on the screen. You can still watch the show but its annoying. Imagine watching your TV while having a white curtain in front of it. One day, I got extremely furious because I was watching Smackdown and slap the side of the TV. Then, it returned to normal. I kept doing the same solution I discovered every time the white thing appears on screen until one day it stopped functioning. 😂
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That is called “percussive maintenance”
Before chips and integrated circuits, a TV had bulky components, which were soldered. Over time those solders can get loose, components just not connect properly. But if you hit the TV the lose compents could move around and settle in a way that they start working again.
The problem with this is that the more you hit it, the more they move around and wear out the connector to a point where they won’t connect anymore and proper repair is required.
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