Test chart

[copyman]

I know I have posted before about not using things for a long time. Like not using meters, vacuums, corona wire, etc. Just realized today I haven't used a test chart but maybe 3 times the whole year. I'll print test pages and use them.

Does anyone else want to add what isn't being used as much in the copier repair industry anymore, tools, chemicals, etc:

I'll start the list with has already been mentioned,

vacuum

meter

corona wire

test charts

[blackcat4866]

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continued:

Allen Wrenches
Metric Ignition Wrenches
Tweaker (for VR's)
Corona Stringing Tools
Marvel Mystery Oil
Fuser Oil (as a cleaner)
Pledge
Thickness Gauges (adjusting doctor blade height)
Pantone Color Bridge
ColorPic

=^..^=

[Hansoon]

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In the field:

-Solder Iron
-IC extraction tool
-Puller (used them in the very old days to pull off the bearings from fuser rollers. ......and YES I'm THAT old.......)

Hans

[copier tech]

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Halogen lamps

[20 year tech]

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Fuses

[Tricky]

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Does anyone else want to add what isn't being used as much in the copier repair industry anymore,

Brain.

[slimslob]

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Based on some of the questions I see asked here, service manuals.

[Lagonda]

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Clutch end float gauge
Drum polish
Door switch cheat
External counter cheat plug
Sense of purpose

[ZOOTECH]

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A spring/belt push or pull gauge.

[copyman]

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Ha-ha great answers! I like the brain post the best. And there is some truth to that with these self diagnostic machines. I remember when there were no codes! You were in a customer's office and felt like you were on a remote island. Probably a good reason for no codes back in those early days was, of course not being digital, but there were no displays to even show a code

[Geo]

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5 minute plastic epoxy.

Light activated super glue

Paper clips and wooden coffee stirrers.

Yellow dusters and canned "air"

[gneebore]

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5 minute plastic epoxy.

Light activated super glue

Paper clips and wooden coffee stirrers.

Yellow dusters and canned "air"

Never used canned air after we were shown what happens to circuit boards when hit with a long blast way way back when we were actually repairing early electronic calculators. Yeah they cost over 150 bucks, and labor back then was still less than 30 bucks an hour.. Condensation and fried board was usually the result. Watched a customer use canned air to clean paper dust out of a doc feeder while I was repairing a typewriter. And she blew a few staples into the paper path and she managed to get condensed water onto the photo diode sensors and shorted the doc feeder sensors out. Sure was glad that particular copier was not one of ours.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Toshiba copiers have test charts built into service mode. I use them all of the time and tell customers this is how I judge colour quality.

[copyman]

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Not sure about canned air not being used as much anymore. I use it almost every call, mostly to blow paper dust off ADF sensors.

[techwurk]

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Hammers, fists and soles of shoes

But seriously, there is much less a need of non consumable parts as compared to years ago...