Miracle self-healing?

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  • larrymoencurly
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Oct 2004
    • 960
    • USA
    #1

    Miracle self-healing?

    A lot of times when something suddenly quits working and shows no defects that are obvious to a novice like me, I stash it away, but when I try the device again months later, it usually works fine. What's going on? The devices are things like cordless phones, CD drives, and radios.

    I'd like to think that some intermittent connection got jiggled just right by accident, but before I stashed away the product I had resoldered joints, tapped on circuit boards, changed some capacitors, and applied heat and freeze spray. Also I tried doing most of those things again when I took the product out of storage, to see if I could make it fail again, but there was no change. Only one product went bad again, a Philips/Acer CD drive, after a few months, but it worked again after being stored for about a year.
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    • PCBONEZ
      Grumpy Old Fart
      • Aug 2005
      • 10661
      • USA
      #2
      Re: Miracle self-healing?

      I can't explain that but, could I put some stuff in you garage for a few months?
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        • gerg
          Badcaps Veteran
          • Nov 2010
          • 278
          • United States
          #3
          Re: Miracle self-healing?

          Christine for a garage? I am with PCBONEZ I have some stuff that I would like to fix itself

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            • inuyasha.rules
              Member
              • May 2011
              • 43
              #4
              Re: Miracle self-healing?

              Your garage is on an ancient indian holy site resulting in miraculous repairs. Your house on the other hand is cursed. Then again I've had the same luck with stuff in storage. Like a pioneer amp. Blew 3 under warranty and they refused repairs on the third so I threw it in storage for a couple years and now it works like new. So I agree there's something to the idea of giving electronics a rest and them comming back to life

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