I was working on an old analog Mita that was getting dark areas on the copies in a different area with EVERY scan. I pulled the lens unit cover off and Yep, there was mister mouse alive and well running around in there. He died via an icepick I used to carry with me. I held him up for the secretaries to see and the room cleared within seconds accompanied by massive amounts of screaming.
On an older sharp 8200, the call was no lights and no power, I found a crispy tree frog on the dc pcb, the good humored customer stuck it to the wall above the copier with a push pin.
A tech found a human turd in a paper tray. How did he know it was a human turd you may ask? Well it was huge, and whoever left it, had corn for dinner the night before. The machine was located at a phsyciatric hospital, so that kind of helps to explain why somebody may have mistaken the copier for the toilet.
Sometimes our jobs really are shitty.
__________________________ "Be careful of who you step on, when you are on you're way to the top. You never know who's butt you will have to kiss on the way back down."
My old service manager had a cheese slice in the doc feeder on an old sharp 8300, I had the mouse nest under the dark box on a sharp 7300, a square peice of fabric in a doc feeder and i also charged a customer for what i thought was a plastic bag in the heater unit of a sharp 2040 - turned out it was in fact the silicon sleeve from the press roller had come off. Oh well the times i let them off when they damaged the machines before
I started out life as a slot machine & juke box engineer and had a call to a pub one night to find a cat stuck in the speaker enclosure. He had crawled in when the cash was being emptied earlier in the day.
I think I posted this before, but it's been a while. I found:
snakeskins
fingernails
hair wrapped around rollers (complete with skin tags)
mice (I charge extra for this. I've removed 2, so far)
roaches
ants
wasps
camel crickets
...some of those alive and sometimes dead
the usual pens, pencils, and paper clips
condoms (used and gross)
and my personal favorite...
a marijuana pipe kit with weed included
some of these were on site calls but the fax machine with the marijuana came into shop. I fixed the machine and put the kit in a plastic bag and attached it to the top of the machine. customer picked it up all red faced.
I would have kept the pipe kit....
__________________________ But I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard... to be the Shepherd.
One thing that gets lost in copiers a lot are screws, falling off the tip of my screwdriver, never to be seen again.
I have a theory that photocopier screws are afraid of the light 'cos give them half a chance they will run off and hide in the darkest place they can find!
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At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem!
Many years ago I was called to service a Mita DC-8090 in a prison. The customer started by yelling at Me because his originals were getting torn in the DF. I expected to find a staple or a paper clip but what I found was a long piece of sheet metal with scotch tape wrapped on one end and the other end was sharpened. You should of saw the look on the guys face when I showed him the shank I pulled from the feeder.
I guess it all depends on the environment where the machine is installed. I guess a copier at the Playboy magazine would be filled with lingeries and stuff like that...
__________________________ ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!' Mascan42
, I had the mouse nest under the dark box on a sharp 7300, a square peice of fabric in a doc feeder and i also charged a customer for what i thought was a plastic bag in the heater unit of a sharp 2040 - turned out it was in fact the silicon sleeve from the press roller had come off
. Oh well the times i let them off when they damaged the machines before
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