Getting shocked

[robscopyr]

There goes another rubber tree plant!

Working on an old sf-8600 (I still have the nightmares) and replacing the lower thermal fuse when I touched my screwdriver across the main fuse, I had my hand on the shaft of the driver, not the handle, and I got a big spark that made me jump backwards, tripped over my tool case that was behind me and took a header into a HUGE clay pot that held a full size rubber tree . I was knocked goofy,but not out, and the rubbertree plant, and about 50lbs of potting soil were all over the floor.

Best part of the whole thing... the super model secretary that nursed me back to health and helped me clean up the mess, still have a scar on my hand from where I jerked back from the machine and caught a sharp edge.
Yep! its one of my favorite scars.

[ToshibaTech]

Vincent64, That's the only time on about the same model sharp, doing the same thing you were, I've been shocked in my short 5 years. Yeah it's more the mental shock than the physical harm (I didn't get cut.) I haven't been bit by a corona yet, I guess it's somewhat harder on the newer machines. I did cut into some heater wiring and short it to ground once on a newer digital, I'll just claim being an idiot on that one luckily the machine nor I was harmed.

[Lagonda]

Mita's Manhood Mangler!

It was the live heat sinks on old Mitas that still give me nightmares, with the back cover off they were at crotch height!!!

[mjarbar]

It was the live heat sinks on old Mitas that still give me nightmares, with the back cover off they were at crotch height!!!

On that one you don't have to say anything more!!!

[mjarbar]

You are obviously a superior tech to us then.

Hardly - found out after rebuilding an iR3035 fuser assy that it is a good idea to ensure the brass plate of the fixing film DOESN'T touch the metal frame of the assy.

Luckily was in our workshop when all the electrics went down and not at the customer!

[dqydj]

I agree with lagonda.
Mita and their ungrounded heat sinks.
To this day I can't have my cell phone on vibrate
without jumping out of my skin when it vibrates.

[blackcat4866]

It's been a long time since I thought about that. I had a Mita DC2055 once that I had worked on the operation panel and lost one of the op panel screws.

Well that screw sat on top of a heat sink on the lamp regulator board for over two years. Someone must have bumped the machine just right to nudge that screw to roll off, and weld itself between the heat sink and a metal cover. The lamp regulator didn't take it too well either.

Two years!

[Shadow1]

Worst I ever got was on an old AF850. I had the LCT pulled away and the side cover off to fix a clogged toner supply hose - If you've worked on this, you know what a fun job it is.

I had it back together and the customer was running an important must have job from the internal trays while I was checking to make sure the toner pump still had some life left in it. The easiest way for me to tell is to pinch one of the toner lines and listen for the change in sound if the pump is good.

Well, this time I brushed up against the developer assembly. I'm soooo glad the engineers decided to check for bias leaks - I've never been so glad to see an SC code in my life.

Runner up was an old analog Lanier 6550 (actually a 50ppm Toshiba) with open lamp terminals - which wouldn't be so bad if the stupid $%^&#! engineer had hot switched the circuit or safety isolated both sides of the AC line - but no - this is a neutral switched suicide circuit, and I brushed up against it.

Its not like pissing on an electric fence, but I didn't enjoy it either...

[CableGuy]

Re: Getting shocked

Ah, my two favourite occasions of lighting myself up, out of the many....

First was working on a Roneo sp9000 duplicator... It was on a fairly high bench and with covers off, I lent over it to press the drum inching button. There was a spark and bang and it became very dark.... My tie pin had bridge a bank of fuses on one of the front boards took out a few fuses and threw the electrics in the room... That got my attention.

The other was when I was working on a Panasonic machine, was 35 0r 45 cpm fella. I had the finisher detached from the machine but still live. I decided to give it a blast with an can of air duster..... Well, after the fire ball had dissipated and the bolts from the old skylight above had stopped raining down on my head I staggered out of the room, minus an eyebrow or two. Fortunately for me, there were some building works going on, so when someone walk out of the next office to find out 'what that bang' was. I said I think it may have been the builders knocking down a wall nearby. The machine errored out, but switching it off and on sorted that. It must have been a miracle, as I was in a monastery at the time...

[kingarthur]

Re: Getting shocked

only once in 34 yrs....happened about 32 yrs ago, was in a bank, looking at their intercoms, had an electrician with me checking the wiring, he asked me to screw the floor socket back down, put the screw through the live AC cable, all their computers & everything went down, i was thrown backwards & hit the wall, dont know what hurt most, the shock, the wall or the dent in my pride....

[Kidaver]

Re: Getting shocked

Ah my big bonehead move...I was in AIT for biomedical equipment tech training at Sheppard AFB....was Block 6 or 7 where we were learning different dental hygiene equipment. Was troubleshooting a bug in the prophy which is an ultrasonic teeth cleaner. Well the bug was a dead fuse which I tracked down with my volt meter. Popped the fuse out and went to the instructor to get the good fuse to put back in the machine for the next set of troubleshooting labs. Dumb ass me didn't unplug or power off the machine like had been drilled in my head every safety brief at the beginning of each block, and I just shoved that fuse right back in and sure enough it worked and bit the hell out of me.

[coolbeer]

Re: Getting shocked

Are but have you been shocked by the customer ?

[mjarbar]

Re: Getting shocked

Are but have you been shocked by the customer ?

So often I have become numb to it and I'm not sure if it is a good thing or not!

[mikadonovan]

Re: Getting shocked

Been zapped a few times over the years. The most memorable was when one of my practical -joking numbnut fellow techs stuck a corona wire into the power strip on the front of my workbench. It being a corona wire I didn't realize it was there until I brushed up against it. Retribution was hard and swift on that one. Sumbitches.

[Mita-Konica-Tech]

Re: Getting shocked

I was once working on a Savin 770 and was tweaking the MC voltage with my screwdriver... A very good looking secretary was walking by in a short hot looking outfit... "INTENTIONALLY DISTRACTING MY ATTENTION" I slipped the screwdriver and touch the main power source, my reaction was to swing my arm back and let loose with the screwdriver which flew across the room and landed in a hand painted portrait of the founder of the company.... Totally Humiliated and Embarrassed... Second most expensive damage to I've done to a customers office....