You know you are a tech because...

[emujo]

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

Although I no longer turn screwdrivers, I have a absolute favorite craftsman ratcheting that I would turn around and go back 20 miles to get it off of the dining room table. Forgetting my laptop was bad, but I couldn't work without that screwdriver in my pocket. Emujo

[roho]

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

You know which office buildings have unlocked restrooms and what floors they're on.

[blackcat4866]

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

If it's near boards, I'll power Off and fish for it with my stick magnet first. If it won't come back ... yes I'll disassemble. My conscience will not allow me to leave it there. This happened on a tabletop Kyocera printer recently. The customer gave me a questioning look when they saw me violently shaking their printer over my head. The screw did drop on my forehead. =^..^=

[subaro]

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

The thing I think is amazing, is that dropped screw or spring can somehow cross the room and arrive under the heaviest piece of furniture in the room. I've found E-clips in my pant cuffs, hanging from the edge of my shirt pocket, in my shoe laces, in my beard, dead center underneath the copier, and sitting on an electrically live heat sink on the power supply board. And yes, my ears are particularly attuned to that last little sound it made on the way to ... where is it? =^..^=

A question to the above in red. when you drop a screw in the machine, which you are not sure where it has landed, but is in the vicinity of power supply or pcb's, do you go back and get that screw or take your chances ?. done that quite a bit myslelf and continue installing, but every time i end up going back[there and then] and get that screw to be sure. sometime after installing and dressing your harness and all that, op drop screw and to take it all off again.. but i do it for saefty and just can't leave it knowing disaster may be lurking. now i have strategies to prevent that.... don't take the risk and place magnet, paper or whatever to avoid it.
sometimes it may be in the geartrain area, and have to dig in there to retrieve. But sometimes, when the aliens want to work you over, you have no choice and they spill the screw exactly where you did not want it to end up. did i say aliens, i guess i did. who else then, the evil one.

[Iowatech]

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

The thing I think is amazing, is that dropped screw or spring can somehow cross the room and arrive under the heaviest piece of furniture in the room. I've found E-clips in my pant cuffs, hanging from the edge of my shirt pocket, in my shoe laces, in my beard, dead center underneath the copier, and sitting on an electrically live heat sink on the power supply board. And yes, my ears are particularly attuned to that last little sound it made on the way to ... where is it? =^..^=

Isn't that the truth.
Unfortunately, sometimes I drop screws and stuff on carpeting. No sound at all as far as I can tell, and the thing may as well have been beamed up by the Starship Enterprise for all the good it does me to look for it.
That's kind of how I came up with the theory that e-clips can sometimes achieve relativistic speeds and leave the solar system.
I wonder if there is a planet of lost e-clips like the planet of lost pens (follow link at your own peril).

[blackcat4866]

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

The thing I think is amazing, is that dropped screw or spring can somehow cross the room and arrive under the heaviest piece of furniture in the room. I've found E-clips in my pant cuffs, hanging from the edge of my shirt pocket, in my shoe laces, in my beard, dead center underneath the copier, and sitting on an electrically live heat sink on the power supply board. And yes, my ears are particularly attuned to that last little sound it made on the way to ... where is it? =^..^=

[subaro]

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

The amazing ability to locate dropped screws with your hearing. It freaks me out.

I was always able to find those missing screws and corona springs by going to my car and digging through my "cup of junk". Once I got the screw/spring replaced I found the lost item. Emujo


That use to be before i started wearing glasses. Now have to bend further and look harder. frustrating to say the least.

[Iowatech]

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

I was always able to find those missing screws and corona springs by going to my car and digging through my "cup of junk". Once I got the screw/spring replaced I found the lost item. Emujo

I'm too lazy to keep that in my car. I've got a container of screws and stuff in my toolcase.
14 ounce/397 gram waterless hand cleaner cans make excellent containers for that stuff, the lid locks on really well.
And waterless hand cleaner is very useful for when you get into an ink or toner intensive situation, as well as if you want to work on your own car.

[BLADE]

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

Lol. That is ironically funny.

I think you meant ionically

[blackcat4866]

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

I was always able to find those missing screws and corona springs by going to my car and digging through my "cup of junk". Once I got the screw/spring replaced I found the lost item. Emujo

That's my new SOP. I don't even look for the dropped screw or spring. The moment I find a replacement, the old one leaps into view. =^..^=

[mikadonovan]

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now you think you are ionstien.

Lol. That is ironically funny.

[fixthecopier]

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

You walk around with toner prints on your face.

[CraigW]

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

All of your dress pants are black, or dark blue.

And yes, ripped a pair out while lifting a Royal 5000 series typewriter. Just kept walking like nothing.

[mrwho]

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

When the boss tells you to go to *that* customer and you secretly consider throwing yourself in front of a bus to get it over with...

[emujo]

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

The amazing ability to locate dropped screws with your hearing. It freaks me out.

I was always able to find those missing screws and corona springs by going to my car and digging through my "cup of junk". Once I got the screw/spring replaced I found the lost item. Emujo