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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1509811" data-attributes="member: 11896"><p>true story - Probably my 2nd month in electronics tech school we were building a circuit in a lab when the kid behind me told the prof that his signal generator wasn't working.  Mr Birch was a Big guy and didn't get out of his chair unless he had too so he asked about some of the settings and such to diagnose they had it set up correctly.  As he started to get up from behind me I heard two "WACK"'s that I knew was the sound of him smacking it with an open palm before he announced "oh fixed it".  Mr Birch got excited to the point of telling us if we were sleeping to wake up, this is important...  I was sure he was going to lecture us about not hitting school equipment or something and instead took the opportunity to explain to use the magic of the technical tap.</p></blockquote><p></p>