What was your biggest oopsy on a call??

Hi, can you help me with those tricky trick on how to setup an i-fax for my canon ir 3320i? Thanks.

[fixthecopier]

You have ask your question in the wrong forum. Try posting under cannon copiers.

[aodtech]

Routed the MP detection switch harness on a CS-1500 through the wrong slot. Needless to say, there's a good reason why they keep wires and gears separated.

[banginbishop]

1) stripped a machine down again because of blank copies only to think, hey you dumb ass wheres the test chart!

2) 2 days ago - sent for jamming on a minolta 350. Burning smell on runs of 20 copies or more after testing. Stripped out the fuser, finisher, drums but couldn't pinpoint the smell in the machine. Smell was from the finisher then the fuser then the power supply. Thought can't leave it as the machine might be dangerous.

Had the machine in bits & turned off when i smelt the burning again but the machine is turned off

Walked round the office smelling the air like a sniffer dog looking for drugs and discovered the builders next door were drilling into wood causing the buning smell

[blackcat4866]

I've got one like that too, bangin.

It was in autumn, and I get a call for strange sounds from the copier. You know how it is trying to track down noises, I could be coming from anywhere. As I'm digging into the fuser with the power unplugged, I hear the sound again.

It was a bad blower motor for the furnace directly overhead. It was the first day that they had turned on the heat, and with the dust burning out of the furnace it smelled pretty bad too.

They called me for the same problem later on the same afternoon. "He left without fixing it!" =^..^=

[redime]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by djbass
	My most memorable though was my first day as a trainee copier tech. I had moved a machine while I was working on it so that the sorter was sitting under a low laying bench top. Forgetting to move it back to its original position I switched the machine on to test it and watched in horror as all 20 bins smashed themselves into the bench top one after the other.

Oh man, I can not stop laughing!

When I was training, I made it a rule of mine not to touch anything the other guy didnt have a replacement for...

"Do you have one of these?"

"no"

I wouldnt touch it

[redime]

What about biggest "ouch" ???

This happened to me just before I became a tech, I was working in setup.delivery and one of the jobs was taking all the old stripped out equipment that we had no use for and dump them at a metal scrap recycler. It was around noon, I had been fed up all day with a co-worker who was lazy as sh*t, so I was sticking to myself mainly, loading the truck up with old copiers, finishers, faxes, whatever. We order pizza and the guys just sit down to eat it, and I tell em ill be right there just one more finisher.

I grab a monster side mount - stand up konica minolta finisher and throw it up onto the pile. Starts to come back down, I put my hands up to stop it (the wheels are coming towards me) I push it back up and walk off the truck. Im thinking, jesus im hot... I look down, nope not sweat - its blood, pouring from my arm. I turn it to look at it, and I can see my bone! I was extremely calm - hey I didnt feel anything other then banging my elbow like when you whack your funny bone, why freak out now? I grab the cut with my nasty disgusting work glove and hold my arm above my head and tell the guys all calm who are now stuffing their faces with food "Hey I need to go get stitches" - our parts guy didnt believe me, needless to say he lost his lunch when I proved to him I needed to go.

Heres my ghetto stitches... You know its bad when the nurse in the emergency room takes a look at it, and runs away and doesnt come back into the room until you are stitched up.

[jimbo1]

Ding, ding, ding!!!


We have a winner!!!!


Sorry bout that man!!

[mjarbar]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by banginbishop
	Ok - anybody who has NOT split their pants when bending over in a customers? I've done it to many times and yes i think i've put on a little bit of weight since sitting in a car since 1992 and eating fast food on the go!

I thought this was a pre-requisite to calling yourself a technician!!

I didn't do this myself - honest - but a work mate of mine managed to arc out an iR5000 drum while the machine was turned off and disconnected from the power supply. To this day we still don't know how.

[junior]

I've only been in the field for a month or so, but I did kill a mfp board on a konica minolta bz 180 that i was overhauling in the shop. I went to blow out the machine and over spun the power supply cooling fan apparantly killing the board. It had to be done that day luckily we had a parts machine in the back.