"percussive maintenance" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: PC Communications Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229, column 2:",
          "text": "If percussive maintenance and other home remedies have failed, you should try running a general diagnostic utility. Better yet, run several.",
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          "ref": "1996, Alex Law, “Benz touts hydrogen-based fuel cell”, in Toronto Star:",
          "text": "Early trips reported trouble that seemed to be fixed by using a wrench to apply repeated doses of percussive maintenance.",
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          "ref": "2002 July 30, Adam Turner, “Multi-function devices ‘present untapped opportunities’”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original on 2014-07-25:",
          "text": "There was a time when all that was required to use the office copier, printer or fax machine was the ability to fish out paper jams and a knack for percussive maintenance – known in layman's terms as a good hard thump.",
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          "ref": "2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, New York, N.Y.: Viking Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Babies react with rage when their arms are suddenly pinned at their sides, and adults may lash out by swearing or breaking things when they hit their thumb with a hammer or are surprised by not getting what they expect (as in the technique of computer repair called percussive maintenance).",
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          "ref": "2022, Strack, Defèr et al., “Development of a Learning Game for the Implementation of Maintenance & Reliability Systems for Onshore Wind Parks”, in CPSL Proceedings, page 341:",
          "text": "An example for such can be \"\"percussive maintenance\"\", which is the art of utilizing physical measures (typically physical blows, hence the name) for an item to re-function.",
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        "The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device work."
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        "(humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device work."
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        "(humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device work."
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      "word": "technical tap"
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