COPIER DESTRUCTION!

[Phil B.]

Have you been witness to a copier destruction (high height, Caterpillar machine drop into a metal recycling dumpster)?
Are 3 Series KM machines current product or refurb?

never a copier.. but PLENTY of CRTs ..printers faxes

and personal recycling.. stoves..fridge..freezer..dish wash..washr/dryer//a few cars and steel n alum.. cans ( I make better money now I have my 8'x4'x12' utility talier.. less trips )

[allan]

Refurb, we get bizhub 363/423 series from a wholesaler and refurb and modify them. Than they run for ages.

Hans

Mods?

[copyman]

allan and I think alike, hey Hans what mods are you talking about? I bet 2 of them are things you designed, the new style rear collar with bearings in it, and the better teflon coated UFR?

[Lagonda]

Our pensioned off copiers get an all expenses paid one way cruise to India.

[allan]

Our pensioned off copiers get an all expenses paid one way cruise to India.

Have you seen the e-waste issues in India. Its next level.

[Lagonda]

Yes, I know all we are doing is exporting a problem but at least someone gets some use out of a perfectly good but 5 year old copier for a while.

[tonerhead]

Many, many years ago we had a copier do a swan dive into a dumpster. The forklift went up about 25-30 feet and a huge class 5 machine took the dive. The thing just exploded from the fall. Neat!! Then there was the push 2 together like a demolition derby. Not quite as fun as the dumpster swan dive, but still entertaining.

[skelband]

I must admit it tugs at my heart strings to see machines destroyed.
Watching that YouTube vid of a copier being shredded filled me with equal parts horror and fascination.

I know that all machines have a useful life and we need to recover their materials, but something about it makes me a little sad.

[qbert69]

I remove stepper motors for use in 3D printers & such....the rest gets tossed!!!

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[FrohnB]

"Copier Destruction" is actually how I got my start as a copier tech! When I started as the Bottom man on the Totem Pole (office supply delivery guy) at our company, I went on a "Cleaning Frenzy" throughout our building because crap was everywhere and I wanted a good clean workshop and delivery warehouse area. Junk copiers and printers littered every corner of our building (basement/ workshop/ entire upstairs/ garages) and we have a pretty good sized building (2 stories by 1/2 city block by 1/4 city block). So the first action taken was to have all the Techs mark which machines were DONE FOR, and I moved them all into one area. At the request of the Technicians I took good parts (op panels/ motors/ clutches/ etc.) off the "Junk Machines", not having ever worked on copiers before, and organized a "used parts" inventory. The Techs would give me guidance here and there, but it was mainly a "figure it out for yourself" type of thing "Just don't damage anything" they would say. Then after the important parts were removed (Toners/ PCU's/ Fusers), we'd load them into our box truck with a forklift (and I mean load it FULL), take them out to the Metal Scrap Yard and give them a good push out the back of the truck. Then the Scrap guy would either grab a claw full of machines or use the magnet to toss them about or load them in the chipper/shredder. Fun to watch. Early on we removed as much plastic as possible and recycled that too, but then it became way too expensive to do that. So now the Scrap yard just gives us a cut-rate for having the skins still on. A couple times a year, I get a good full load or two to go out and release some copier aggression with (the scrap guys love it too).

And little did I know that over those years, our service manager (also my Uncle) admitted he was "secretly" training me to be a tech. (Sneaky Bastard)