Why does punching an appliance sometimes seem to fix it?

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So I live in military barracks and i have a shitty fridge in my room. It started making this horrible noise, and out of desperation I landed a solid right hook to the side of it. Like magic, the noise stopped. This has happened numerous times in my life. Something is broken, and some brute force fixes it. What happens inside that could solve the problem from percussive force?

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Well. If it is a loud fan for example you may have knocked loose some dust or something that may have been contributing.

If it was a piece of plastic rattling you may have caused it to get wedged somewhere that stopped it..

You may also finish off whatever was dying. Again if it was a fan or something, the impact may have just killed it off.

Most of the time a light slam isn’t going to end up being the cure all, but it may be the end all.

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