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I couldn't start my lawnmower yesterday. I don't know anything about lawnmowers, really, but I figured if I took it apart I could maybe see what was wrong. I took it apart and couldn't see what was wrong. When my wife asked me to show her, I reassembled it, but then it unexpectedly started up fine. Lawn-mowing accomplished!

I didn't do anything...honestly I have no idea. I guess the lawnmower equivalent of "did you try turning it off and turning it on again" is "did you try taking it apart and putting it back together"!

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So many times I've taken things apart to "see what's wrong" to no avail.

[–] brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was 100% certain I was in this position when I removed basically all the screws I could see, and was like "well...i don't know what I expected, but I have no idea what I'm looking at" lol

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, or there's something obviously broken but no obvious way to fix, or a spring pings off during disassembly and it isn't clear where it came from.