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    What was your biggest oopsy on a call??

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    Why have to be like this whit us tech's? Is it in nature of job?Are we just sloppy and careless I read this topic and find out that few of u lost a finger...or other parts, got mental problems and everything else...

    i realized that i will get fried more then an six time by 220V of a dam scanning lamp or blowing power switch to smithereens and whole electrical system in shop by connecting it in a hurry whit wrong poles....(thx god for automated fuse's )

    I know it's not funny but i gotta laugh on "costumer tell the other tech to look for my finger....." or blackcat "crime sceen".....

    This forums gives a l more hope to us all when u know ur not the "only one"

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    Senior Tech 100+ Posts Dalamar's Avatar
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    removing an IP board from a ir400.... one of the wires came out but not the plug it in.....

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    oops

    Quote Originally Posted by Dalamar View Post
    removing an IP board from a ir400.... one of the wires came out but not the plug it in.....
    Done that twice.
    Like the United States Postal Service It's a miracle it works!

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    Here is a tip for ya. Unlike a copier or printer, where if someone else had pulled all of the wires off of a board, another tech could come behind and put it back together, well on a shredder if you pull all of the wires off of a board without thinking, you might find out the hard way that all of the wires are the same length, color and have 2 pin connectors that will plug into any plug on the board, and you only get one shot at guessing before you plug it in. I did not charge for the call. I did not guess right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fixthecopier View Post
    Here is a tip for ya. Unlike a copier or printer, where if someone else had pulled all of the wires off of a board, another tech could come behind and put it back together, well on a shredder if you pull all of the wires off of a board without thinking, you might find out the hard way that all of the wires are the same length, color and have 2 pin connectors that will plug into any plug on the board, and you only get one shot at guessing before you plug it in. I did not charge for the call. I did not guess right.
    I've been caught in similar situations.. it is a good idea to carry a fine permanent marker pen and number the connectors and such so you have a good chance of putting it back the way it was.
    If you are hitting your head up against a wall it always feels better when you stop.

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    DOH!!!

    Sharp sf-2020 power supply board. Another engineer removed it i refitted it but didn't understand at the time that the connectors have colours for a reason. I just plugged the connectors back in any order and turned on. BANG - shut down a solicitors office, the lights and computers went off. Thay looked at me and i said "its not me, the machine was'nt working anyway" i made a quick exit.

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    It's not easy being green 1,000+ Posts Cipher's Avatar
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    I've dropped and dinged a few drums, and I've lost springs and e-clips trying to take them off or putting them back on and I've snapped a few things here and there.

    I think the worst thing I did was cut my finger open on a fine metal edge and the damn thing would not stop goshing.
    By the time I was finished doing the PM the machine looked like it had been in a war zone with blood stains and blood soaked rags all over the place LOL.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cipher View Post
    I think the worst thing I did was cut my finger open on a fine metal edge and the damn thing would not stop goshing.
    By the time I was finished doing the PM the machine looked like it had been in a war zone with blood stains and blood soaked rags all over the place LOL.
    Hehe I've done that a few times just because it seems Ricoh just doesn't bother to mill the edges on anything metal.

    The worst time was when I was cleaning out the toner hopper cavity on a 1035 (or some other variant of that family I forget which) and I caught the side of my finger on the unmilled edge of where the hopper slides in to.

    It was squirting out!! But as luck would have it I happened to be in the admin office of a hospital ward at the time and they were used to dealing with such things.

    I always manage to get cut whenever anything metal has to come out, finisher frames are bastards for it, and as for changing relay guides on a 1075, my hands usually look like I punched a porcupine to death afterwards. Hehe, usually the first time I notice is when I have to use optics cleaner or IPA and it gets in the cut.

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    What was your biggest oopsy on a call??

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    During the first year working on copiers I had picked up this habit from one of the other techs: Spit on my forefinger then wipe the primary corona wire with it. It's not the best possible way to clean a corona wire, but OK as a diagnostic tool (replace wires vs. don't replace wires).

    I was working on a Mita 900D (you old timers already know what's coming...). I did like it have hundreds of times: spit on the finger wipe the primary, then WHOA....that's not a wire! Thats a primary RAZOR! And the blood is spirting all over the place...

    By the way, I am capable of learning from these situations. I never used my finger to clean a corona again. Even when you use a Q-tip, it slices neatly in half 1/3 of the way across that 900D razor. I may be forgetful, but I don't believe I could ever forget that one.

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    5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

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    I was cleaning a drum blade of bizhub500 whit an alcohol and peace of cloath.I usual place my thumb on cloth,make a hard pressure and go up and down fast.

    At that point costumer asked me a question but while i was answering and didn't paying atention, cloth somehow slipped from my thumb and i was scratching blade whit it until i didn't make a laud scream . Lets just say i was "impressed" how "deep" blade can cut thru flesh.... would 0.35 inch or 0.8 cm satisfies u?

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