Is there a mouse in your machine?

[exCSER]

Re: Is there a mouse in your machine?

I got a call on a xerox 9900 (120 copies per minute) machine in a warehouse. This model used a large vacuum bag as part of the cleaning system, and a mouse had used the bag as a nest: chewed through the side and made himself at home. When I turned the machine on, the vacuum motor started and took the little dude and all of his droppings through for a ride to the center of the bag. It took about a month and a full can of Lysol to get rid of the smell.

[Iowatech]

Re: Is there a mouse in your machine?

I posted this one elsewhere, but years ago the first call I went to on a Monday was for blurry copies from a 3M 536 or 537. That particular series had a moving platen, and on this machine the platen was traveling slowly at apparently random times in the scan direction.
Those machines used a rotary encoder that looked like a propeller as part of the platen drive control, and a mouse had got caught between the encoder and the bracket for the sensor, and had gotten skinned and sawed. The mouse skin had adhered to the encoder, blocking some of the slots and that caused the erratic platen speeds. That was probably the least pleasant thing I've ever seen in a copier. I used a lot of WD40 and alcohol to clean things up.
Oh, I did see a mouse that got caught halfway through the fuser of a Konica 1290. It looked surprised.