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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
Was doing this with my car fob for a while before I finally broke down and re-soldered the battery contact terminal to the board yesterday.
Also doing it to my cars blower fan for the AC. I have the replacement fan motor, but it hasn't been annoying enough yet to mess with replacing.