LCD monitors. - I’ve got a rackmount console that wouldn’t keep its backlight on. A good whack ( not hard enough to damage anything ) and the sucker starting working straight away. 
My cable box / dvr. It likes to buzz sometimes, a good whack and its peachy.
Oh, and you know those friends you have that act stupid? WHACK on the head sets them straight sometimes too.
Apparently our brains benefit from an occasional whack, like this: :smack:
In my basement, I have a pump under my wet-bar sink that collects water from the sink under the bar, and then it pumps it up into the sewer pipe when full. It didn’t come on the other day and water started to come out the top. A gentle kick freed up the ‘float’ and triggered the pump to come on.
My 1997 Jetta needs a Fonzi-style jolt to tune into AM stations about 3-4 times on the way to work every day. it’s worth it for 28 mpg.
A good smack is needed to get some urinals to stop flushing. The valve in the housing in the pipe gets stuck.
I hate vending machines with a passion. The whole thing is based on distrust of the purchaser (which is fair enough - but it’s like your face is being rubbed in it). The ones at work, I have estimated, have about a 10 - 20% failure rate: the money falls through and doesn’t register, or the mechanism doesn’t move yet the money goes “clink clink balance 0 thank you”, or the product doesn’t fall. So we are supposed to trust the vending company? I don’t think so. Imagine going into a shop, giving a human your money, doing this every day of the week, but one day at random, the assistant takes your money then just stands there.
“Can I have my chocolate bar, now please?”
“No. Please come again.”
It’s the same thing.
I will remorselessly tilt the crap out of vendig machines. Sometimes I get an extra product or two. I have no guilt about taking these as it is a small fraction of the money I’ve lost in the things over time.
Back to Happy Days, and my favourite moment was when they wanted to listen to the jukebox, but the Fonz wasn’t there. So they telephoned him, put the receiver to the jukebox, and he clicked his fingers down the line.
By tilting the vending machine, do you mean you actually lean the thing over? Because in the US at least, they are very heavy and people have gotten crushed to death doing that. I think nowadays they bolt or chain them to the wall to prevent the ensuing lawsuits.
Yeah. But these are workplace ones which aren’t bolted to the wall, and I am of Sherman Tank-type build. I push them back away from me until the top of the unit touches the wall, then let go and it comes forward, releasing goodies.
The machines don’t seem that heavy. Coke machines maybe, but I’m talking about the ones that sell chocolate bars in those spirals. It’s just a glorified sheet metal box with some candy in it. It’d be lucky to weigh more than 100kg. I’m 135.