You know you are a tech because...

[Tricky]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

You know you are a tech when you know if a machine is being disassembled for the first time. If it wasn't the first time you know if it was you by some tell, like blue tie-wraps or non self-tapping screws mounting the fuser or adjustment screws marked with metallic blue nail polish. =^..^=

One of our field service guys likes to come into the workshop and complain to another engineer about the other field engineers. Fifty percent of his complaints are about the wrong screws, he talks about a Toshiba (blue screw) being used in a Canon as if its a dismissable offence. The only difference is its blue!

[mrwho]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

Here are the ones I can identify myself with:

You have toner fingerprints on your face no one will tell you about.
Your friends and family want you do do free fixes on your time.
You have ever used tools from your box to eat or prepare your lunch with
You learn the art of bullshit to deal with customers.
You know you don't know it all and you want to know more.
You have thought about making glass table tops out of original glass - Well, not glass table tops, but picture frames.
For a guy, a room full of women happy to see you , makes your day.
You know that "drum bias" does not mean you are prejudiced against drums
When some one says "corona", you think wire instead of beer
You go online to talk with techs from around the world who "Know what you are going through"
You have thought of making a wind chime out of old drums - again, not a windchime, but a cantena (google it)

[sanvicente]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

You have ever used tools from your box to eat or prepare your lunch with

a 28 year old tech here in mexico told me once that "you are a copier tech when you can use your tools from the box to eat and open a beer with toner in your hands"...

[prntrfxr]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

a 28 year old tech here in mexico told me once that "you are a copier tech when you can use your tools from the box to eat and open a beer with toner in your hands"...

I wear gloves when I work, now. Not because I had a problem eating with toner on my hands (washed my hands before eating, but toner is hard to get rid of), because other people did. I mean really, what's the problem. As a tech, we eat toner everyday. The second you blow out a machine, use your brush, or vacuum, you usually end up eating some.

[jcontractor]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

When you turn on your laptop and search the internet for Copiers Manuals instead read your e-mails first.

[jam-man]

[sweet.persona]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

Phone always ringing without Reply ^^ ,

[CDVMike]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

You Clean a Corona instead of Drinking one

[Venom]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

YOU KNOW YOU ARTE A TECH BECAUSE
...you have used electrical tape as a band-aid...
...picked toner ball from nose...
...have used spit to clean a slit glass...
...have a story about a dog on a service call...
...have cleaned a machine with a dirty rag because you're not feeling like retrieving the vacuum from your car but ends up taking twice as long...
...have taken free gift from nice customer...any hand outs appreciated...
...have farted at the copier and prayed that nobody entered room...

[igi]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

hi there and welcome
your g she is not a techie she wont understand

i been techie long time my wife still dont understand

[mjarbar]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

I did make wind chimes out of little HP drums. Cut em at differant lengths and at angle. Guess Im in

If this counts, I made a light fixture out of the back panel of a GP605. We stripped the machine down to junk it and thought the back panel would look good on a wall with three halogen spots shinning out at different angles. The transformer fit very nicely in the bottom right hand courner.

[fixthecopier]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

YOU KNOW YOU ARTE A TECH BECAUSE
...you have used electrical tape as a band-aid...
...picked toner ball from nose...
...have used spit to clean a slit glass...
...have a story about a dog on a service call...
...have cleaned a machine with a dirty rag because you're not feeling like retrieving the vacuum from your car but ends up taking twice as long...
...have taken free gift from nice customer...any hand outs appreciated...
...have farted at the copier and prayed that nobody entered room...

The first one I have not done, you got me on all the others....Dog Story- One of my best customers is the Joint Special Operation Med Training Facility, a secure building that I have a key badge to get in, and while doing a Bizhub 600, I turned around to see an old German Sheppard looking at me. I stopped to give him a pet on the head. I noticed he also had a key badge around his neck with his name and photo on it. He was identified on the badge as the moral officer.

[LightDiodeDesigns]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

You know you're past tech when you get distressed stripping working copiers, and make new stuff out of the bits... I want to find if I can program a hitachi chip on a ricoh duplex unit (be a perfect robot base, 2 identcal steppers and big PWM driver IC) just because I can... (I know I can lever it of and PIC it but see 1st eh).

Sometime you need a fiddler.. Half way through making an NVRAM examiner and copier (after I did an SC999 causing event!) someone found factory mode destination code change easier..!

Neal

[darkwhiz]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

you know you are tech because you are on this post

[mrwho]

Re: You know you are a tech because...

Well, you know you're a tech when, while not working, you're around and about taking care of your personal matters, and you go somewhere where they hand you a printed receipt or copy of some kind and you give more attention to the defects on it than to the text on the paper.

Happens to me all the time. Even when I go to my bank and they hand me a paper telling me my bank account is in the red, I usually remark "hey, did you notice your printer needs a new drum?"