Reply to post: Re: Need a rubber hammer

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

Drew Scriver

Re: Need a rubber hammer

Depends on the problem. I shared a flat with some other students back when I was in college and we had an old CRT TV in the living room.

Occasionally the image would flatten to a single bright line in the middle. Tried cleaning the variable resistors to no avail.

Then I brought in an old-fashioned wooden mallet that I had made in shop class in secondary school. Worked like a charm - we'd just whack the top of the cabinet with it. We kept it on top of the TV, next to the (acoustic!) remote control.

Oh, those were the days!

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