Silly locations that you've seen printers or copiers sitting.

[Venom]

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1. Went to a place that raised crickets to sell as reptile food, had bugs flying around everywhere...in my mouth, ears, eyes, etc.,their copier was getting black line on copies...black line kept changing location on copies, found a big black bug crawling on 3rd mirror.
2. Had a hardware store put fax machine on top of high cabinets, they had built a 5 step set of stairs so the girls could reach the feeder.
3. Had a car dealer put a copier in closet, had to use hacksaw on exit tray to make it fit.
4. had to service typewriters in meat packing plant, hallway was covered in blood and would slip and slide trying to walk through to the office.
5. had a copier at a strip joint, the girls would copy their bottoms...had to clean optics with a spatula

[Phrag]

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...had to clean optics with a spatula

What?

I heard a story that at a police station, my old service manager got a call to look at their copier. The platen glass was broken. There were several shards sitting in the scanner section, with a suspicious red fluid on some of the edges.


Of course, no-one owned up to anything.

[vincent64]

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Zootech's post about the 7030 in a strip club reminded me of having to work on one, 7030 that is in a cell phone sales booth in a Wal-mart out in the open in the middle of the store, noise what noise, problem was, operator error, had to teach the difference between waste toner and where to add toner on that mach...that was always an adventure, pull dv/toner unit till it stops, flip open lid, shake bottle, twist off cap, add toner, recap bottle, close toner hopper, and re-install, any other order, its toner bomb time.

[Akitu]

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What?

I heard a story that at a police station, my old service manager got a call to look at their copier. The platen glass was broken. There were several shards sitting in the scanner section, with a suspicious red fluid on some of the edges.


Of course, no-one owned up to anything.

Look for the one having difficulty sitting, and keep an eye out for hemorrhoid donuts.

[Iowatech]

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I had a machine out at a farm, and one time I called the guy and he said he wasn't going to be around but it was OK to go fix the machine. That in and of itself bothered me a bit, I always prefer that someone else is around, but after some time on the phone I reluctantly agreed.
Apparently one of his neighbors had a St. Bernard dog, as when I parked the car it chose to walk across the road and visit me. I had never seen a St. Bernard in real life before, so I had no idea they were that huge, it looked like a small horse from a distance. The dog walked up to me and stuck its nose directly in the center of my chest without jumping up, and I'm six feet tall.
Luckily for me he turned out to be a friendly fellow and I scratched his ear for a bit and then went in and fixed the machine. When I came back out to the car he was gone.

[CompyTech]

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5. had a copier at a strip joint, the girls would copy their bottoms...had to clean optics with a spatula

This is a chargeable call.. What's it gonna cost??? 1 Lap dance per hour Mam..

Seriously.. A spatula? Wha??

[KenB]

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Many moons ago, we had a Canon NP3825 in a "Gentleman's Club", too.

They couldn't load paper right to save their lives, so the machine constantly jammed (not that the 3825 needed any help when it came to jamming).

Almost every call was for a broken transport handle, which they would break when they slammed it to clear the jams.

At almost any given moment, there were a few of the girls in the office, and most of them were quite "friendly".

Every time they called, all the horndogs in the service department volunteered to take it. As this was a commonly replaced part, it was hard to keep them in car stock - so that meant an almost automatic return trip to replace it.

[Akitu]

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That sounds like the true copier heaven, sponsored by Flying Spaghetti Monster. While the concept is beyond ideal, in practice, a gentleman's club here would be... Disastrous. I can see the DJ now... "AAAAAAANNNND FRESH FROM HER RECENT MATERNITY LEAVE, PLEASE WELCOME BACK PEGGY!" as she stumbles out onto the stage, half drunk with a wooden leg and an eye patch sporting a fresh c-section scar. I shudder at the thought.

[Luther]

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Two sharp sf-741 in funeral homes, one was in the room where they kept the bodies before embalming and the other was in the room where they put the dearly departed in the caskets after embalming...one funeral home was and old victorian house in the basement..every creak you would look around

[mikadonovan]

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I had a call from a church to take a look at their machine. When I arrived , there was no machine inside the church. It was in the parking lot. In the back of a truck. Exposed to the weather. It was a short call since I couldn't convince the dude that I really needed power to the machine for a proper estimate.

[Bantams]

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I had a Copier at a U2 Concert In the middle of Rounday Park in Leeds UK and was on callout to go fix it when it broke Unfortunately it did break on the day of the Concert but unfortunately the security people wouldn't let me near the stage and walked me straight to the Cabin the copier was in.

[rthonpm]

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had a copier at a strip joint, the girls would copy their bottoms...had to clean optics with a spatula

Glitter and baby oil will do a number on those optics. Not that I know about those kinds of things...

[teckat]

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had a customer put a copier on a board stretched across old fashion bathtub in bathroom/

excuse was only outlet that worked in small 300sq ft apartment

[Iowatech]

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I had a service call on a Riso in an older building that they hooked up with a custom made extension cord. I don't know how they did it, but frame ground measured forty volts over neutral when I first got there. That doesn't sound like much, but it is darn irritating when I was taking the screws off the back cover.
Oh, and it probably doesn't do the machine any good, either.
I had them fix that before I did any more work on the machine. And I still had to jump safety ground to neutral to get the machine to work properly so they would fix that as well.

[slimslob]

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I had a service call on a Riso in an older building that they hooked up with a custom made extension cord. I don't know how they did it, but frame ground measured forty volts over neutral when I first got there. That doesn't sound like much, but it is darn irritating when I was taking the screws off the back cover.
Oh, and it probably doesn't do the machine any good, either.
I had them fix that before I did any more work on the machine. And I still had to jump safety ground to neutral to get the machine to work properly so they would fix that as well.

I have encountered floating grounds before. Worked havoc with network topologies.