What have you ever lost/found in a copier or other equipment

[mrobe48942]

I was working on a copy printer a few years ago.I received a call on my mobile phone ,and answered it.Shortly after I needed to ring the office to order some parts.I could not find the mobile anywhere.I rang the phone from the customers landline,and got the recorded message that "the mobile was unavailable,please try later".A lot of people had passed through the area I was working so I assumed that I had fallen foul of some light fingered person.I called my company on the customers phone and reported the mobile lost or stolen,so that they could get the sim blocked.I also ordered the parts for the copyprnter.
The following day I went back to fit the parts,opened up the machine,took out the master roll,and there was my phone.OOOPS.Completely surrounded by metal that was why it didn't ring.I had to eat humble pie to the customer and also ring my company to get the mobile un-barred.

[fixthecopier]

An unfired round of ammo. That is why the doc feed would not pull paper,the bullet was in the way. It is funny because of who it was. Of all the people I work for who are considered bad asses [Delta Force, Army Special Ops, Air Force Special Ops, Combat Controllers, Psyops, Special Warfare School], the unit that had the bullet in the machine were weather people from the Air Force. They would be considered wimps. I made fun of them and ask if they had that Barney Fife thing going and their bullet rolled out of the shirt pocket when they bent over.
Off subject, I found some other companies copier in a bathroom being used to stack toilet paper on.

[ExOceMan]

I had a customer storing a wide format printer in their restroom for something like a year!

[TheOwl]

There's always the good old halfs of mice / rats that have been churned through gears or the paper thin ones that lost a fight with the fuser unit.

When I was working for Canon as a Bubble Jet tech, I used to be able to fix most feed issues within 30 secs. Turn the machine upside and give it a shake to remove the obstruction.

I found all sorts if things in those printers like toy axes, pop corn, a wedding ring, dead spiders and lizards. You could always have fun around the workshop putting bets on what you would pull out of the machines.

[KenB]

I once had a Canon NP7550 (about a million years ago) that was getting no transfer.

When I removed the back cover, there was the mouse (completely in tact) that had bitten into the high voltage cable for the transfer corona, his teeth still stuck in the wire.

I understand that wire insulation is quite yummy.

I extricated the little varmint by his tooth with a pair of forceps. eeeyuk!

The smart@$$ print shop owner quipped "Hey, I bet that's the first Canon copier with a mouse!"

I came really close to flinging the crispy rodent at him...

[nmfaxman]

Had a Cannon MF something with a light streak. Did the usual cartridge, transfer, blow out the laser unit.
Light streak just moved. I opened the laser unit and a small scared cold spider ran across my hand.
This was one case where the streak actually streaked.
Yes I have had a call for the loud squeak in the machine with a bad smell.
Mouse half cooked pancake in the fuser.

[mrwho]

I completely lost my sanity on more than one ocasion. But I guess that doesn't fit this thread - I mean, who here hasn't?

[kyoceradude]

Had a Kyocera KM-6330 that had an exposure lamp issue. It wouldn't turn on. Took scanner apart and found a pile of Hershey Kiss wrappers (the foil ones had to be about twenty) laying on top of the scanner pcb. Showed that to the customer and there remark was, "We were wondering whose been stealing the candy out of the bowl."

[prntrfxr]

What have you ever lost/found in a copier or other equipment

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.

[Koosie]

One thing that gets lost in copiers a lot are screws, falling off the tip of my screwdriver, never to be seen again.

[mikadonovan]

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.

[robscopyr]

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.

[atwageman]

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.

[banginbishop]

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

[FRIDGEMAGNET]

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.