I was just looking at webcomics and inDigital War, our heroes are on the hunt of the elusive British Telecom representative. They know they have noiw found one because:
Yes, he’s definitely from British Telecom, he’s hitting the exchange box with a large hammer.
Now, I have had similar encounters with repair people in my own life, but I can not seem to recall them right now, so the comic strip will have to do. Does anyone else recall similar incidents from their own lives?
For Apple Powerbooks, one of the instructions in the manual is to drop the laptop on a hard surface. I’ve done this a few times with varying results.
It’s called “percussive maintenance” and sometimes it works. I’ve found it to be at least temporarily effective with monitors with bad flyback transformers that give off the high-pitched whine.
I have a friend who swears that there is nothing so technologically advanced that it cannot be repaired with the suitable application of brute force and ignorance.
In oter words, if all else fails, hit it with a hammer.
Ledbetter’s Correlary: Don’t force it - get a bigger hammer.
(named after a guy I worked with who was fond of the saying)
Actually, folks hit things with the “wrong” end of the hammer all the time, if it’s a ball peen hammer . . . .
Yes. But that is using the right end of a hammer, not the wrong end. 
This may not count as “repairing”, but once, while camping, my friends and I found ourselves in need of firewood. We had no hatchet, so we cut down a tree using the claw end of a hammer. Took a while, but it worked.
That hammer was the most useful tool ever. We drove tent pegs with it, cut down a tree with it, cooked with it (used the claw to pull hot pans out of the fire)…
Well, our butthead neighbor uses his steel tape measure as a hammer to bang on his circular saw as a means of subtle adjustment - does that count?
There have been times I found myself using the wrong end of a screwdriver as a hammer - does that mean I’m a butthead?
Didn’t Dr. Who, at least the Tom Baker version, use a sharp blow frequently to fix “Earth technology”?
One of my newest “rules of life” is: Sooner or later, it comes down to a hammer.
This worked quite well for me when I had the conundrum of how to hang some things in my dorm. The solution, of course, was get some nails and a hammer. Bang, done.
I do not, however, think that this method will help me cover up the highly illegal nail holes in my walls come the end of the year.
This didn’t involve a hammer, but the tech support guy at my old office used to “fix” the computers by repeatedly smacking the side of the monitor.
It became known as the Harold fix.
Yes, but then again, he sometimes used that technech on the TARDIS console, and he is smarter than me, so he knows best.
Yes, but toothpaste of the right color, smothed over the holes, and left to dry will.
How is she supposed to find magnolia toothpaste? 
That’s the only way to get the microwave where I work to start.
BFH baby. I solve all sorts of problems with a Big Fucking Hammer.
To fill a tool box, or odd drawer you need; WD-40, duct tape, a hammer and a screwdriver. Everything else is nice, but not essential.
-Mr. Goob’s workshop has approx. 20 to 30 hammers and mallets
Let me guess:
Well you’ve got your framing hammer, your two pound drilling hammer, your 8 ounce ball pein, your 16 ounce ball pein, your rock hammer, your mason’s hammer, your five pound sledge, your MC Hammer, your armored hammer , your circuit breakers (Cuttler Hammer )…etc.