Most interesting copier location

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

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Not long after I started the army rented a couple of copiers for some war games they were playing. They were out in the deep woods. I had a call on one. My service car was one of those Susuki piece of shit like a Geo metro. I am driving on this dirt road when all of a sudden a solider jumps out of the brush, motioning frantically waving for me to stop. I slam on the brakes and just about 15 feet in front of me, these 3 giant M-1 tanks come flying out of the trees doing about 40 to 50 mph, cutting across the road I was on. Based on the size of the tank vs the size of my car, it would have been like running over a beer can for them.

If you like guns, I wish I had pics of this one. The Special Warfare School has a weapons facility. Before the new one was build, they used an old building from the 60's. The copier was in the weapons vault. They not only keep what we use, but a collection of all guns used by every army. The vault reminded me of the scene in the Matrix where they bring up these rows of guns in this endless room.

I also used to enjoy watching the pilots learning how to keep the big Chinooks level.

Being in the command of any of these places on base is like any office building, except the security is tight and everyone dresses the same.

Honestly I admire your 'adventures' dear fix, you must now be 'Battle hardened'.

[xring1958]

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Cold storage room at embalming facility machine on one side rows of corpses on the other.

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

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Cold storage room at embalming facility machine on one side rows of corpses on the other.

Eeh! Servicing a copier even in the 'world of the dead', it must have been the most chilling and frightening experience! I hope the morgue attendant was at your side throughout that session.

[xring1958]

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Eeh! Servicing a copier even in the 'world of the dead', it must have been the most chilling and frightening experience! I hope the morgue attendant was at your side throughout that session.

We moved it from their corporate office to the " Care Facility" another word for body preparation. After we rolled it in I was leveling the feet and looked up just as they were unbagging a new arrival. My Tech Trainee was watching me and didn't see the shelves of bodies until I brought it to his attention. On the positive side the air conditioning was working well.

[copydocinc]

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I used to service a copier in a psycho ward of a mental hospital.
They had to put the patients in their rooms, before they would unlock the security door to let me in
to get to the also locked up office, where the copier was.
They had to stay locked in their rooms until I finished the repair job.
I had to do a full PM on one visit and it took a couple hours, going back and forth to car for parts.
A lot of screaming going on during that service call.

[NeoMatrix]

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I'm holding out for the paper jam call for the copier on the ISS..LOL Emujo

You've got me thinking......
I wonder if a toner based copier would work in zero gravity ?
I don't see how a dry toner system could work in space. A pressured ink system would work.

[guitar9199]

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You've got me thinking......
I wonder if a toner based copier would work in zero gravity ?
I don't see how a dry toner system could work in space. A pressured ink system would work.

Thermal
Paper.....LOL!

[blackcat4866]

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I used to service a copier in a psycho ward of a mental hospital.
They had to put the patients in their rooms, before they would unlock the security door to let me in
to get to the also locked up office, where the copier was.
They had to stay locked in their rooms until I finished the repair job.
I had to do a full PM on one visit and it took a couple hours, going back and forth to car for parts.
A lot of screaming going on during that service call.

I used to have a Mita DC-313Z in Macomb Oakland Center (the local nuthouse). I had several very exciting service calls on the machine in the check-in area.

On one visit a very large woman came in strapped to a gurney. She was singing at the top of her lungs: "I love me! I love my Mom! I love God.!! It was kind of entertaining for the first hour. After that ... not so much.

On another visit I was PM'ing the machine next to the waiting area, about 2 feet away. Initially it was glassed in, but I think they found that impractical, and replaced the glass with corrugated steel. A young man on the other side casually asked me:
YM: ... hey, do you have a cigarette?
ME: No, I don't smoke.
about 10 minutes later
YM: I really need a cigarette!
ME: The nurse should be back in a second ...
YM: I need to get out of her. Do you have the key? GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!
Then he started slamming his face into the corrugated steel. After a very short time the blood started running down the outside of the steel. The screeching did come to the attention of the very large nice men in the white coats. From one of the side doors two of these nice men stepped out, and entered the waiting room. They carried the young man with the ruined face bodily out of the room levitating about 2 feet above the ground, flailing with all his might, which was no match for his new friends. I never thought that I would be so glad to see the men in the white coats.

=^..^=

[NeoMatrix]

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I used to have a Mita DC-313Z in Macomb Oakland Center (the local nuthouse). I had several very exciting service calls on the machine in the check-in area.
[random snip]
=^..^=

Yes I've witness similar service calls.

It leaves me a tad dishearted an feeling heavy to know the other end of society.

I always attempt to leave someones day a little better than it started.
You only wish you could relate to those people in some way to make their day a little difference.

Anyway...

[jonhiker]

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i serviced one at a helicopter repair facility, once. It was interesting, they several raging in size up to a sky crane...

[fixthecopier]

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I don't believe in ghost but I have no problem messing with people who do. The 18th Corp command is located in what was the original base hospital, built in 1919. It is a beautiful brick building 3 stories high with a basement. The basement was the morgue. It feels old when you are there. When I used to go there a lot, I would mess with the MP's on guard duty. I would tell them it was haunted, and talk about all the soldiers who died there, It would really bother them. They would tell me about walking down the long creepy halls at night and hearing all kinds of noises.I would make up stories about spirits who roam the halls at night. I knew that the noises were because the building was full of mice and/or rats. I would do the same thing to girls who worked in businesses located in the old pre civil war homes in town.

The only place that ever creep me out was a kind of rest home. It was out in the middle of nowhere.It was a run down old school that was built in the early 60's. It sits in a field surrounded by pines and oaks with weeds grown up all around. I think it was a low budget place for people who had mental issues but were not dangerous. It is closed now, but I drive by it once in a while. Every time I see it I picture it being the site where a serial killer would do his work.

[xring1958]

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We also had a machine on an offshore drilling platform. About 1 Hr. via helicopter for service. Humidity was so high that machine did auto adjustment after every copy. Always had conflict of wanting to take everything I may need for service and limited helicopter space. ( no running back to the shop for parts)

[NeoMatrix]

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I don't believe in ghost but I have no problem messing with people who do. [random snip] .

Re: Things that go bump in the night...
12 months ago the missus an I had a recent trip out west to visit her parents. We stayed at her sisters place which is rarely used because the sister stays out with her husbands job out of town. The house is old and has no known previous history.

The first nights stay over the missus an I had a couple of night cap drinks while watching a movie on TV. The movie ends and she decides to go onto bed. For about an hour or more I stayed up wandering through the old house. I turned on the lights as I went looking at all the old family photos and paintings around the walls. Content with my wanderings I decided to sit down on the old lounge. I was just drifting off into la la land when all of a sudden I heard foot steps behind me on the old wooden floor. I turned to talk to the missus an there was no one there. Unphased I get up an check on the missus who was sound asleep in bed. I then head off to the toilet passing through an old room; I turn the light on to the old room an then head through the hallway to the toilet. On my way back from the toilet I pass by the old room to turn the light off,but someone had already turned the light off?????... WHAT THE ... !!!?? I checked the missus and she was sound asleep. I head off to bed while at the same time talking out loud to my new ecto-friend hector the ghost.

I asked the missus in the morning, "did you turn the lights off last night ?" She said "no". Out of respect for her sister, I never did tell her about my experience that night. I convinced my self that I had one too many drinks for the night and left it at that.

We spent about 3 more nights in the house an I never encounted hector the ghost again.

I believe since our visit, I've learnt of another experiences in the same house. I've never told anyone of my experience with "things that go bump in the night" at that house. This is the first.

My father in-law would some times say, "You should be more worried about the live ones than the dead ones". So... true.

[gneebore]

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... Reading the threads in this post brought back a few old memories...
Without getting into the dritty details. I've had the opportunity to work in a few different places.


About the only thread where I haven't serviced a machine is down in a nuclear bunker.

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Not a copier but way way back when I used to have to service typewriters in nuclear weapons storage bunkers. The missiles and warheads were stored there when the subs were in port. The missiles had to have routine service done. And the paperwork had to be typed. So call in the technician to fix the typewriters when they broke. Not too bad but had to have an escort at all times when on that base. The machines were more than two miles away from the gate so my escort and I got into my car after inspection by security. One time I needed some parts that were in my trunk. So got up and went out to my car while my escort was busy reading the magazines and did not see me leave. I did not realize he wasn't there either. Not a whole lot of fun having a pair of marine guards with m-14's pointed at you saying "Do not move stay right where you are" Or the few times when the base had a missing nuclear materials alert, drill. Every bunker had a cell where visitors were held during the drill. As part of the security procedures in place for visitors that were not cleared by extensive background investigations. Most of the time the drills lasted 15 to 30 minutes. But there was one time I spent five hours while they ran an extended drill. After that particular fiasco the company I worked for required the base carry the typewriters to a building outside the restricted area for any repairs or routine servicing on the ten machines they had in the bunkers. Oh yeah the base tried to refuse to pay for the time I was held in the cell because I wasn't actually working on the typewriter.

[DRichard]

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East Tennessee in USA; down inside of zinc mines. Inside the garage of an armored car service right beside where bundles of shrink-wrapped US currency is stacked on rolling carts to be loaded for transport. US Dept. of Energy classified sites in Oak Ridge (several good stories from there that I won't relate, because then...I'd have to kill all of you.)