Percussive maintenance
We literally had a TV where you had to do this. It was a black and white set and it was ancient even when I was a kid. My parents refused to buy a new one though so we had this thing until the mid eighties. They had bought it some time in the sixties. Sometimes the picture went away and you had to hit it in a certain place to bring it back.
That’s usually just a pin making bad contact with the socket due to oxidation. Reseating all of the tubes usually fixes it. If not, then it’s probably a cracked solder joint.
Thanks for telling me. Only 40 years too late ;)
Bonus
Falwell pointed out that the male Tinky Winky carries a handbag not unlike the big purses carried by grandmothers nationwide.
And worse, he said, Tinky is ‘purple – the gay-pride color.” Falwell continued: ‘And his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay-pride symbol.”
They’re turning the freaking triangles gay now too? 😭
So basically, the Nazis used pink triangles to mark homosexual (male) prisoners in conceration camps. (often prisoners would have symbols on their uniform that would tell you why they were there, such as the infamous yellow star) Later it was reclaimed as a queer symbol by gay men.
I am gen z and understand it. How dare you hurt a Teletubby?
It was acting up mate 🤷
As an Oregon Trail millennial, I sure as Hell don’t want that creepy abomination. Gen Z can fucking have it!
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