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Likes: I do that from time time time. Don't take me for a ride along. An especially not when i have a tool kit with me. Removing the gear lever works well.Originally Posted by NeoMatrix
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I do that from time time time. Don't take me for a ride along. An especially not when i have a tool kit with me. Removing the gear lever works well.
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If the temperature is below freezing, a slice of cheap lunch meat on the windshield of a car can work pretty well. A slice of cheese would probably work too.
I filled an S10 pickup up to the domelight with packing peanuts. The difficult part is getting the last 2" at the top filled. You have to leave one of the windows open a little. Bill owned this car for years, and every time I rode in it, a handful of packing peanuts would roll out from under the seat, or dump out of the dashboard.
There were an endless stream of phone pranks:
Taping down the hook button. The phone continues to ring.
Unplugging the handset cord and taping to the bottom of the phone.
Smearing something sticky on the ear-part of the handset.
I saved punch hole chads for two years. When my boss went on vacation I filled his desk with chads.
For a while there was a competition of a sort: How many ways can you ship loose toner to the adjoining branch of the company? It got to the point that any company related mail had to be opened over the dumpster, and with great care.
I think my favorite though was gluing Bill's ash tray to the corner of his Steelcase desk with two part epoxy, then letting it cure over the weekend. For the first two weeks he just stacked the butts into a huge cone shaped pile until the ashtray disappeared. Finally he got a hammer and shattered the ashtray into small bits. If that desk is still around somewhere, there is still a disk of broken glass bits forever adhered to the surface. We had no idea it would irritate him so much. He pushed and pulled, yanked, pounded, and it never budged ... for weeks. Obviously, that was quite a while ago. Nobody can smoke at work anymore. =^..^=
If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=
Turn the machine to Japanese language. We mess with the office machine all the time. See how long it takes to get it fixed. Like switch off some of the protocols. Or put the useless web on there.
The Useless Web
Whatever
Where I work some of the technicians told their manager that they had installed voice recognition in the MFD and that he had to speak his login code.
A little grease of the right color and consistency, smeared on a couple of sheets of TP and left on a desk, counter, etc., will cause a scene......... so I've heard....... Used dirty aircraft landing gear strut grease is particularly realistic.
We got in a lot of trouble for the Japanese display language. It never occurred to us that none of us can read Japanese, and cannot set it back to English. It was a very humbling call to the hotline. =^..^=
If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=
I had the path back to English memorized on the Dialta series. I would change it all the time.
Back at Weber Carburetors, there was a giant of a man named Leon. He was back woods country, about 6 foot 4 inches tall and looked like Lurch from The Addams Family. One day Leon left his car running all day in the parking lot from the time he arrived til shift end. After that, we would steal his keys and go out ans start his car right before the shift ended, leaving him wondering if his car had been running for hours.
The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking
Maybe not a joke, but I once accidentally set a 1 to a 0 (or vice versa) on a Canon fax machine, setting it to Japanese.
Of course, whatever bit switch it may have been was not marked in the service manual, along with about a bazillion others.
Nothing like taking 4 hours to finish what should have been a 1 hour call.
“I think you should treat good friends like a fine wine. That’s why I keep mine locked up in the basement.” - Tim Hawkins
Ah memories, I had the Japanese keypath memorized as well, and one service call the manager at the time was with me. I updated the device and went to the phone to clear the call, and asked him to reboot the device, after changing the language. The look on his face when it rebooted in Japanese was priceless, total aghast. He had a real fair complexion and would turn red at the slightest event, and not only did that happen, he was sputtering and stammering as well. He thought he did something to it, priceless. I told him he better call Canon on his cell phone, which took him away for a minute, quickly changed it back and rebooted. The newer models have a shortcut key, which is handy as I have a couple of customers that do use the Japanese language setting.
Had a manager earlier that was scared of spiders. It was a shop position I had, rebuilding fusers and devs, back in the analog days. It was common to find nursery spiders, larger brown wandering spiders, in the assemblies. I would carefully put one in my hand, and discreetly drop it on his cluttered desk. A minute later or so, he'd jump, papers scattering all over, a big sudden commotion. Everybody else in the department was in on it as well. He eventually caught on to me, but it was fun while it lasted.
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