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

    You get strange looks from your customer when you ask for some paperclips and stickytape to fix their machine....... and it works perfectly when you leave

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  • blaze2000
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    I check copytechnet.com to see new posts before I check facebook.com.

    OH yeah and try to ID the copier on the movie/ tv/ commercial...

    Use your tools to eat lunch...

    Think this thread is the best thread EVER!
    Last edited by blaze2000; 03-14-2012, 02:33 AM. Reason: because I'm not right

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  • Jamesu
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    I love this thread!

    You know you're a tech because if you don't solve a problem, you spend the entirety of your evening trying to figure out the problem, even if your other half wants to sit down and watch a movie...

    and when i saw the "recognise the model of copier you work on" i actually text my boss a picture message and we made guesses at which actual model it was as the image i sent him was blurred!

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

    Your driving behind a Mercedes CLC220 and you think Colour Laser Copier, Ii cant mean that..

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

    Originally posted by Lagonda
    is there such a thing as used operators manual?

    Not to my knowledge. Except for this one time, I had a call to set acess codes on a machine. Before I got there the shop called back and said to nevermind, the customer does not need me now. That was strange, so I went. When I got there, the machine was passcoded and when I went to enter my code, it did not work. When I entered the admin code, it had been changed. I was confused. Then the person in charge came up and ask if I had got the message not to come. I said I did ,but I wanted to check it out anyway. "By the way, why can I not access my machine" I ask. "We changed the code" he said. "How?" I ask. He looked at me like I was stupid, pointed to the drawer under the machine, and said "We looked in the book". I looked at him and replied "Based on my experience out here I would never have guessed that in a million years."

    I have done a couple of calls where I walk in, grab the op book and sit in a chair in front of the customer, look up the setting change, make the change, ask "Is there anything else I can do for you?" and leave. It never occurs to them to look it up. Counts as a service call .

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

    Originally posted by fixthecopier
    if you have ever used the unused operator manuals as knee pads while working on their machine.

    is there such a thing as used operators manual?

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

    I thought those were stools and people just stored paper in them......

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

    Originally posted by fixthecopier
    You might be a tech if you have ever used the unused operator manuals as knee pads while working on their machine.
    Never did that. But I usually use those boxes with five new paper reams as stools when servicing machines.

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

    Originally posted by mrwho
    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?"

    I do that all the time. I even tell them what is wrong with my competitors copiers when I am fixing other equipment.

    Yesterday I found another one... You might be a tech if you have ever used the unused operator manuals as knee pads while working on their machine.

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  • j morton
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    What a great thread, thanks "fixthecopier".
    I was watching a show the other day and not only recognized a Canon copier; but, also recoginized the "Ikon Equipment ID sticker" on the front cover. Wow, get a life!
    I know I am a tech because...
    Daily, women are telling me how sexy I am because, A. I carry a vacuum cleaner and B. I clean glass like no one else!!

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  • mrwho
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    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?"

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

    you know you are tech because you are on this post

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  • LightDiodeDesigns
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    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

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

    Originally posted by Venom
    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.

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

    Originally posted by Wild Bill
    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.

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