It's a medical term. I used it today. As a teenager, living with my parents, sometimes the TV would go off. My dad would then give the top of the cabinet a slap and more often this would re-connect a dry joint or a loose valve and it would come on again. In January of last year, I bought two thermostatically controlled 60w greenhouse heaters to put in the bottom of the cabinets of my two vinyl jukeboxes. They are in our unheated summerhouse at the bottom of the garden. These machines don't like cold weather, it slows them down. The heaters plus some insulation cures this. Unfortunately, in February of this year, one of the heaters stopped working. It was out of guarantee, so I bought another. This morning I found that the other heater had stopped working. The red light was on, I could hear the thermostat click in and out when I turned the control, but no heat. Same fault as the other. I'd kept the first one, so "for something to do" I dug it out of a cupboard and plugged it in and it still didn't work. More because annoyance, than anything else, I gave it a slap and it came on! So I took the other one out that I found wasn't working this morning, brought it into the house, plugged in and gave that a slap and that came on! So now I have two working heaters and a spare. I think they must have thermal cut-outs that weren't re-setting.
We used to have the same problem with our TV years ago. Now we can't do that because of modern technology so Instead we unplug appliances that don't appear to be working and it's amazing how switching them on again seems to get them going.
Nothing like a good smack to get something to kick start again....or make us feel a little better even if it doesn't. Good job!
When something doesn't work, my husband tries to figure out the problem and fix it. I resort to a hammer. His method is effective, but my method is so therapeutic.
My washing machine wouldn't switch on when i plugged it in. So i slammed the door very hard and it came on. That only happened once in a while, but it's all the time now, so tomorrow someone's going to have a look at it.
My garden tractor wouldn’t start even after a cable jump. So I sprayed a tiny bit of engine start in the carb. Works in cold weather when the engine is a bit stubborn.
Engine starter.. a spray in the carb and you’re good to go. Yes that it. Works like a charm.. it smells like either.. yuck!
Got to say ,the firm from which I bought the heaters (Elixir), were quick to respond to my e-mailed (polite) complaint. They are going to get on to the manufacturers about a possible problem with the thermal cut out. We've left it with me saying, as the heaters appear to be working I'll carry on using them and they offering to refund my money, if they stop working again.
