If it's really broke, it can be fixed!

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• Kevin Wood Posts: 1,266

  2007-10-01 23:27 edited 2007-10-01 23:27

  Any REAL hi-tech redneck would have fixed it with nothing but WD-40...
• parts-man73 Posts: 830

  2007-10-01 23:49 edited 2007-10-01 23:49

  nah... Duct tape is the fix-all.
  
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• D Faust Posts: 608

  2007-10-02 00:17 edited 2007-10-02 00:17

  I'd say duct tape, but then I don't know any high tech rednecks
  
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• sam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286

  2007-10-02 00:23 edited 2007-10-02 00:23

  Oldbitcollector
  
  This should have told you not is all lost when...............every time you bump the desk, it would drop out...
  
  Now have had thing like that happen to before
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  My Boss at work·had a computer monitor that start to have·only one small line for a picture but if you tapped to top of the monitor, (·I hit a few time my self·) it would come back on for a few days and the same thing would and as time went on it got worst until it·would not come on any more
  
  ··········································· ·So what dose·my,·(co worker the REAL hi-tech redneck)
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  ············································Duct tape is the fix-all. here is an example of what you mean
  
  He take the back of the monitor an put a roll of duck tape under one corner of the circuit board and my Boss ran·it that way for two more weeks until it would not work any more·so when he got the new monitor he ask me if i want it
  
  I said sure let me see if can find where the bad solder joint are and see if i can get it to work again it took me a·few week-en to find where it was now i have a good monitor
  
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  Post Edited (sam_sam_sam) : 10/2/2007 12:39:47 AM GMT
• Gadgetman Posts: 2,436

  2007-10-02 06:44 edited 2007-10-02 06:44

  I once fixed a server over the phone...
  
  A small server(a custom built PC with server software, really) on one of our locations died and would not start again...
  
  I called one of the users at that location, and told him to:
  'Stand in front of the server, place your left fist against the side of the server, about 3 inches from the bottom and 5 from the back. Swing it out, then smack it into the server... Now try to switch it on...'
  
  Since then I've had a reputation...
  
  The server had a Vesa(VL-bus) videocard, full-length and all. This card tended to bend a little, and would get misaligned in the socket if the server got bumped around. When the user knocked on the side, the card popped back into place.
  
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• Fe2o3Fish Posts: 170

  2007-10-02 16:17 edited 2007-10-02 16:17

  The Proper Rules of Red-Neck Repair in this case are as follows:
  
  1) If it moves and it ain't s'pose to -- use duct tape.
  If it doesn't move and it's s'pose to -- use WD-40.
  
  2) If it's broke use a hammer.
  If it still don't work... it needed fixing anyhow.
  
  I'm a half-breed -- half red-neck, half.... sump'in or other.
  
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