Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

[Shadow1]

This started as part of the Happy New Year thread (With this post: http://www.copytechnet.com/forums/ra...tml#post332449 ), and I didn't want to hijack it, so here's the deal - Pick your least favorite machine and your most favorite method of destroying it, put them together and tell us the details.

Death by fireworks was my original idea, but there's plenty of more imaginative people out there...

[blsquires]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

what we do is sell a new machine .seven out of ten customers can destroy most machines in a couple of weeks.

[mjarbar]

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Carrying over from the New Years thread, if you mix Thermite with ice it becomes impressivly explosive!!!

[Lagonda]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

A very slow death, a death of a thousand cuts, let our worst tech work on it, guaranteed never too work again!

[mrwho]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

There's some video on youtube of a car hitting a copier (similar to a Konica 7075 or a Ricoh 2060) head on and then flipping over - the copier won. I kept wondering "What if, instead of a car, they used a truck? Or a semi? Better yet, how about a train?"

[mjarbar]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

There's some video on youtube of a car hitting a copier (similar to a Konica 7075 or a Ricoh 2060) head on and then flipping over - the copier won. I kept wondering "What if, instead of a car, they used a truck? Or a semi? Better yet, how about a train?"

I've seen footage of a semi being hit by a train and there wasn't much of anything left. A train hitting a copier would leave even less but knowing Murphy's Law the train would probably be derailed by a gear or something equally tiny!!!

[vincent64]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

Any Konica Minolta machine would do, company I used to work for had a military base for a client, we all talked about taking one out to the firing range, and let it be used for artillery pratice, or take a 50 cal to it.

[Kidaver]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

I wouldn't mind taking a B240 SAW to a few machines we still have in the field.

[dan7777]

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Many years ago work let all the techs take a sledge hammer to a machine. I took my turn and was surprised I did not get much enjoyment. When my customers say I need a bigger hammer I say I like dynamite better.

[Shadow]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

lol, this is going to prove interesting............................

Konica Minolta BH200/250/350 - take it to the range and let lose on it with my 12g loaded with slugs
Ricoh 6513 colour - drop it on the train tracks and see what happens
Toshiba 5511 turbo, yes I know how old this machine is - drop it in the middle of the highway and hope that a semi nails it square on
Xerox M series - drop these from a very high rail bridge over a canyon and walk away
Lexmark Optra series - beat them with an 8lb sledge hammer

[Eric1968]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

Watch it Shred!: PRI-MAX PR-770 Shredding Large Copy Machine

[JimHegs]

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Death by "Sudden Deceleration Syndrome"

We did this a few years ago to a shit-box Mita Ai-4040. Watch till the end, the smoke comes out the second time we drop it!

[kyrenecopy]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

Watch it Shred!: PRI-MAX PR-770 Shredding Large Copy Machine

I didn't see the customer standing at the end of the belt saying, "but I only need one copy" or "Is it going to be very long?"

[blackcat4866]

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Back in the Mita days we had a Xerox trade in. It must have been 8 feet long. We left it behind the building for 3 or 4 years. Whenever I was having a particularly frustrating day I would select an implement, usually the double bladed ax or the 8# sledge and take a few whacks.

After three attempts, I still could not break the copyboard glass. The ax bounced off and nearly took my fool head off. It took two tries with the cement block to break the glass.

It took that whole time to eventually divide the beast into two pieces small enough for three of us to boost up into the dumpster. The cut line happened to pass right through the lens unit and the drum (that may have not been accidental).

I must say that it was some of the best therapy I have ever experienced. =^..^=

[Iowatech]

Re: Your preferred Method Of Destruction?

So the rules are: select my most hated machine, and imagine destroying it in my most favorite way I can imagine? OK, a while back in the analog days, while the Konica 7090S was a pretty good machine, the Konica 7090RF was the essence of evil, so there's the victim. The preferred method of destruction: connecting the machine to the electrical delivery trunk line (if the 42KV ones aren't available I suppose the 17KV ones will do) and waiting until all that's left is a sparking pool of molten metal.
Or I guess just run the thing over with my second most favorite truck I got to drive while I was in the Army Reserves: the HEMTT ( Oshkosh HEMTT Images).