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

[Jules Winfield]

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.

I would have kept the pipe kit....

[Lagonda]

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

I have a theory that photocopier screws are afraid of the light 'cos give them half a chance they will run off and hide in the darkest place they can find!

[gladin]

Many years ago I was called to service a Mita DC-8090 in a prison. The customer started by yelling at Me because his originals were getting torn in the DF. I expected to find a staple or a paper clip but what I found was a long piece of sheet metal with scotch tape wrapped on one end and the other end was sharpened. You should of saw the look on the guys face when I showed him the shank I pulled from the feeder.

[JERRY D]

The usual and then some

My 3 fav's, All True:

1. Panty hose wrapped up in an electronic typewriter.

2. Pot in a typewriter in the prison trustee office.

3. BIG BOOBS...not in but bouncing on the space bar of a manual typewriter causing "mystery spacing".

[mrwho]

I guess it all depends on the environment where the machine is installed. I guess a copier at the Playboy magazine would be filled with lingeries and stuff like that...

[KenB]

I guess it all depends on the environment where the machine is installed. I guess a copier at the Playboy magazine would be filled with lingeries and stuff like that...

Hmmmm... I wonder what type of office equipment they have at The Tobasco Film Company? (from an old M*A*S*H episode...)

[10871087]

I found a screwdriver a couple years after our shop tech left it in a refurb. Not very exciting but it was fun at the time.

[mjunkaged]

Me too!

I found a screwdriver a couple years after our shop tech left it in a refurb. Not very exciting but it was fun at the time.

I still own a stubby Phillips I got over a decade ago from under a copier from a wholesaler. It says 'Charlie' on the end-thanks, Charlie!!

[ZOOTECH]

During a shop rebuild on a lease return, found a dried up puddle of pee. That copier came from an old folks home; hopefully he wasn't injured, the puddle was below the main charge. (Yeah, I know there's nothing going on with the door open, but the imagination is a shocking image)

[mrwho]

During a shop rebuild on a lease return, found a dried up puddle of pee. That copier came from an old folks home; hopefully he wasn't injured, the puddle was below the main charge. (Yeah, I know there's nothing going on with the door open, but the imagination is a shocking image)

I can't refrain from asking: if it was dried up, how do you know it was pee?

[ZOOTECH]

I can't refrain from asking: if it was dried up, how do you know it was pee?

The smell.

[mrwho]

The smell.

Oh...

[Shadow1]

Found a $20 skewered on the ADF Duplex gate of an old color machine. Wonder how that got there.

Most of the skeleton of a chicken in a finisher bin at a hospital. I'll assume it was lunch, 'cuz I really don't want to know any different.

CD-R taped to a piece of cardstock and melted in the fuser of a color copier. Seems they ran out of labels and tried to print directly onto the disk. Not sure how it got that far into the machine - I didn't think the paper path was straight enough, but I guess it was up to the fuser at least. Kudos to whoever designed the bypass feed system...

[vincent64]

Found a $20 skewered on the ADF Duplex gate of an old color machine. Wonder how that got there.

Most of the skeleton of a chicken in a finisher bin at a hospital. I'll assume it was lunch, 'cuz I really don't want to know any different.

CD-R taped to a piece of cardstock and melted in the fuser of a color copier. Seems they ran out of labels and tried to print directly onto the disk. Not sure how it got that far into the machine - I didn't think the paper path was straight enough, but I guess it was up to the fuser at least. Kudos to whoever designed the bypass feed system...

And I thought the wrist bands for a local skating rink was hard to belive, ya know them plastic wrist straps they put on the kids to let them back in, some night clubs were using them, they wanted to put the company logo of the rink on them, and it was a old Sharp SF 7850 at that.
Cleaned out the remains and told her it would not work, dang is she did not try it again next month.

[daprex]

my first inkjet printer

I once got an apple portable inkjet that didnt feed the paper as it should, at the time I was using a 9pin matrix printer and thought id replace if I could fix the inkjet, I found a 100 sek bill in it jammed between some gears so that made my day