Glossary:Percussive maintenance

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Percussive maintenance is a fixing technique often employing a Birmingham screwdriver and requiring great skill in its application. A sharp blow in precisely the right location can sometimes resolve the most inscrutable of faults. Mis-applied, however, it can only make things worse.