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The time I used a hairdryer to fix a monitor and it actually worked
So I had this old Dell monitor that stopped turning on last Tuesday. No lights, no nothing. I figured it was dead capacitors like usual but I didn't have my desoldering pump handy. Out of frustration I grabbed my wife's hairdryer and just blasted the power board for like 2 minutes. Plugged it back in and it fired right up. Learned that sometimes cold solder joints just need a little heat to reconnect temporarily. Has anyone else tried weird temporary fixes that actually got the job done?
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