Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
I was doing a PM on a Kyocera 250ci in the workshop on Friday. I had to take the laser out and to do this involves swinging the main pwb pcb out of the way. The board looked very dusty so I picked up a can and sprayed it.
It was foam cleaner !
Its got the weekend to dry out.Comment
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
My most greatest boo boo todate --I was the fastest sperm........
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I just managed to burn myself in my armpit with my soldering iron, not sure how I managed it but,bloody hell, it hurts!At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.Comment
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There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary maths and those who don'tComment
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If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=Comment
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This is stupid and embarrassing. Yesterday I was doing a printer repair and the poc needed some of my business cards. He followed me out to the truck, helping me carry a couple of boxes. I put my folder on the roof, put the boxes in the back, opened the truck and got some cards from under the seat. He thanked me, I think I saw a squirrel then shut the door and left. Went around the corner, made a left, stopped at the light. Light turns green, I cross and turn to the right, hear an odd noise and look in the mirror to see all of my paperwork flying out of the notebook that is still on my roof. I stopped and ran back where 3 soldiers were helping me pick them up.
I went back to the shop, threw down a big pile of papers on my table and exclaimed "I really don't want to hear any shit about tire tracks on any of the paperwork I turn in!"The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen HawkingComment
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
My philosophy is you learn by your mistakes, there by meaning I must be a genius
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My favourite lesson was at a monastery that had a Panasonic 35cpm B/W. You were lucky to get anything out of one of those.
This particular day I was having paper jams in the machine exit/finisher entrance area. Out of sheer desperation I remember pulling the finisher away from the machine, but still wired to the machine. I proceeded to give it a blast of air from my air can... the last thing I remember is the flash of the fire ball and the bolts from the sky light above raining down on my head. Standing there stunned and the hair on my arms and what used to be my eyebrows still smouldering, someone pops their head around the door to find out where the source of the explosion came from. I said it may have been the builder knocking down a wall near by, not sure she bought it as I was still smoking a little.
Somehow the machine was still working, can't remember if I sorted the problem after all.....Comment
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
I was a young tech fresh out of training and was sent to a hospital to work on a Savin liquid machine. I was using my meter and ground out the AC line taking out all the lights and computers in the patient admitting area. To cover my butt as the lights went out I yelled "Hey who turned out the lights" at the same time yanking out the power cord. and moving away the copier as fast as I could.Comment
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
My Booboo of today:booboo 27012014.jpg
BH-C-253 ready to be transported to the customer. Forgot to remove the TCP/IP cable when I moved the machine........
Two of the contact wires came out of the socket and are twisted beyond repair. The plastic and the shielding of the socket are damaged too.
Hans“Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0”
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
I used to fix the RJ45 connectors all the time Hans. In fact other techs seeked me out to fix there's too.
Just find yourself a $10 NIC card in the discount rack at the computer store. Carefully de-solder the good RJ45 connector, and solder it onto your $1000 board. I was working on Canon at the time but the principle remains the same. =^..^=If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=Comment
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Re: Time to admit to all your boo boos
Good idea Cat, but I'm not sure that they will have the same footprint not to mention the stuff what's inside. There seem to be a bunch of coils under that tin cap.
Either I get the original part, a board from a junker or I have to McGyver it.
Hans“Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0”
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