Time to admit to all your boo boos

[Debs1964]

Banginbishop and I have been texting all afternoon and we have been admitting to all those embarrassing mistakes we've made and other faux pas.
He has decided that this one of mine takes some beating, so I have to start this thread

About 20 years ago I was working on a Xerox 1025 and had to get to the rear of the machine, as I pulled the machine out I knocked the fire extinguisher off the wall next to it, as it fell, the safety pin fell out and it landed on the trigger, what are the chances of that! Luckily for me this machine was not in a posh office, but in a local council building department in a portakabin, it was filled with men in jeans and work boots who saw the funny side of it. It took ages to clean the foam from the walls, ceiling, etc. but the copier was lovely and clean when I finished

Come on, we have plenty more stories like this, but I want to read about yours

[banginbishop]

Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos

Shocked Deborah and deeply worried for your customers pmsl

[Debs1964]

Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos

Shocked Deborah and deeply worried for your customers pmsl

And what about all the errors you've admitted to, at least I've never plugged connectors into the wrong places on a PSU

[banginbishop]

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Never took out a WHOLE I repeat WHOLE building just the ring circuit cough cough

[Kidaver]

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While deployed in Iraq since I was tech savvie the 1SG decided I'd hook up the new bad ass HP printer we got in...sure no prob...except while putting it together and ready to go it just skipped my mind that I should plug it into a converter....So I got to carry that heavy bastard all by myself to the tech shop for a new power supply board....1SG was not pleased with me for a few days....

[Debs1964]

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Never took out a WHOLE I repeat WHOLE building just the ring circuit cough cough

But I got away with it as they blamed the men doing the road works outside the building
I never changed a sorter board without switching the machine off again after that

[charm5496]

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I forgot a used printer drum core in the bathroom of bank building about 19 years ago now and they thought it was a possible bomb. They evacuated the building and called in the bomb squad. I heard about it on the radio later that afternoon and couldn't help but laugh. It clearly said Canon on the side on the box

[Debs1964]

Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos

I forgot a used printer drum core in the bathroom of bank building about 19 years ago now and they thought it was a possible bomb. They evacuated the building and called in the bomb squad. I heard about it on the radio later that afternoon and couldn't help but laugh. It clearly said Canon on the side on the box

Like, like, like, at least I've never been the cause of a bomb scare

[charm5496]

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I doubt many have...lol
Thankfully I never went back there after the incident!!!

[blackcat4866]

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The first was a Mita DC-142re that was stretching out lens springs about once a week. So here I am. I've got the glass off, top cover off, light source #1 off, & lens cover off and powered up. I'm running the lens through the pre-sets 64% > 78% > 100% > 129% > 144% > 129% > 100% ... etc. The whole time the lamp wires are just hanging there in mid-air. As I'm engrossed with the motion of the lens & solenoid the wires come in contact with the frame, and weld one of the terminals right to the frame. Lots of lovely sparks, and I knocked out the power in half of this huge room. We're all standing there with that lamp terminal still glowing/smoldering bright orange in the dark. It takes 15 minutes for the maintenance man to find the breaker and reset it. At this point I've completely forgotten about those stretched out lens springs. Once the copier is back together, there is no power of course. The 15A breaker by the main power cord has exploded into small pieces, some stuck in the wall. With some quick thinking (and a 15A in-line fuse), the poor copier was ... almost as good as it started, but I can't find my screwdriver.

After several minutes of looking, I can't stand the embarrassment any more and head for the door. There is my screwdriver, stuck in the suspended ceiling tile 25 ft behind me.


I had a Mita DC-2585 jammed into the same closet with the phone system. Regularly I had to share space with the phone system guy. It was quite cozy.

On one occasion I was stuffed in the 10" I could make behind the machine to get to the registration clutch. The phone guy bumped into the front of the machine, my back cramped, and in my efforts to straighten up, I banged my head on the shelf over the copier dumping a dozen phone books on my head. All we needed was Curly to make The Three Stooges.
=^..^=

[Mr Spock]

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I had the "specialist" with me on a Xerox 5028 that kept blowing the main pwb. We found the wall current out of spec so the specialist shut machine down and trip the overheat fuse in the optics. Told customer machine was down until the power was corrected. 1 week later we went back out to the customer's location. Electrician and Business owner both onsite and not really happy. Specialist was asking how the electrician fixed wall power as it was now within spec. He claimed to run brand new dedicated line to machine. While talking to electrician he was bending a paper clip into a U shape and grabbing his insulted pliers. He jammed the paper clip into the plug and said that if that was so then the copier breaker was only thing to trip right!!! 2 minutes later the customers IT department is running into the room next to us. It seems some how the breaker to the windows nt 4 servers had been tripped and all 5 servers had crashed! The electrician had piggy backed off of the server room breaker and not run a new line like he said... It took 2 weeks to bring the servers back to life... A new electrical company came in and ran a dedicated line to copier and no problems since....

[Iowatech]

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Back in the day I was working in the back of a machine where there wasn't a whole lot of room, so I was kind of wedged in there. For whatever reason, I had my can of WD40 out, and unbeknownst to me I sat on the nozzle long enough that half the can's contents was expelled. It would have been worse if a couple of people hadn't walked by and commented on the odor. I was so focused on what I was doing I didn't notice it until then.
While I'm not a Canon tech, I did help out with some set ups, and found out that the orange caps on their toner bottles actually screw off after spilling one. D'oh.

[slimslob]

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I had a Mita DC-2585 jammed into the same closet with the phone system. Regularly I had to share space with the phone system guy. It was quite cozy.

On one occasion I was stuffed in the 10" I could make behind the machine to get to the registration clutch. The phone guy bumped into the front of the machine, my back cramped, and in my efforts to straighten up, I banged my head on the shelf over the copier dumping a dozen phone books on my head. All we needed was Curly to make The Three Stooges.
=^..^=

I doubt if you would have had room to fit him in.

[slimslob]

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[QUOTE=Debs1964;389164]About 20 years ago I was working on a Xerox 1025 and had to get to the rear of the machine, as I pulled the machine out I knocked the fire extinguisher off the wall next to it, as it fell, the safety pin fell out and it landed on the trigger, what are the chances of that! Luckily for me this machine was not in a posh office, but in a local council building department in a portakabin, it was filled with men in jeans and work boots who saw the funny side of it. It took ages to clean the foam from the walls, ceiling, etc. but the copier was lovely and clean when I finished

But I got away with it as they blamed the men doing the road works outside the building

Interesting way to get the copier cleaned.

[Lagonda]

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Had a slight typo when emailing a stock request through to head office stores. Ended up with 4 wide format hot rollers at $375 each instead of 4 small bushings a $1 each. Had to do a lot of grovelling but they let me send them back for a refund.