Hey all! Obviously new here!
I have always been fascinated by machines. I would take apart my toys as a little boy. In middle school in the 1980s, I "dated" a girl whose father was an old-school IBM hardware guy and he taught me to build and upgrade PCs. When i could drive, I worked on cars (and a boat my dad bought).
When I was about 17, dad asked me what I wanted to do for a living. I told him I wanted to be a mechanical engineer and to go to work for an IndyCar team. Dad was pretty dismissive of this plan and said he would pay for me to be a "grease monkey." He talked all the time about getting a "real education," like the kind you get at a fancy and expensive college. So I did as I was told and went to one of those fancy private colleges, ultimately starting my own quasi-consulting business.
BUT, that does not satisfy the inner teenager who still wants to work on machines. To scratch that itch, I do all the work on my cars that I can, all of my own IT work, and I DIY nearly every project on the house. I can work on most things mechanical and, at the least, not break anything.
Copiers have fallen in this category but I haven't really needed to work on mine, and they are full of parts that I do not know the names of. Using Youtube and this website, I have done some work on my own copier (an old KM BizHub 423 with about 300000 clicks on it), but lately it has been acting badly, and now it is refusing to work at all.
So here I am, hoping to learn how to fix another machine in my life! Hello to all of you!
I have always been fascinated by machines. I would take apart my toys as a little boy. In middle school in the 1980s, I "dated" a girl whose father was an old-school IBM hardware guy and he taught me to build and upgrade PCs. When i could drive, I worked on cars (and a boat my dad bought).
When I was about 17, dad asked me what I wanted to do for a living. I told him I wanted to be a mechanical engineer and to go to work for an IndyCar team. Dad was pretty dismissive of this plan and said he would pay for me to be a "grease monkey." He talked all the time about getting a "real education," like the kind you get at a fancy and expensive college. So I did as I was told and went to one of those fancy private colleges, ultimately starting my own quasi-consulting business.
BUT, that does not satisfy the inner teenager who still wants to work on machines. To scratch that itch, I do all the work on my cars that I can, all of my own IT work, and I DIY nearly every project on the house. I can work on most things mechanical and, at the least, not break anything.
Copiers have fallen in this category but I haven't really needed to work on mine, and they are full of parts that I do not know the names of. Using Youtube and this website, I have done some work on my own copier (an old KM BizHub 423 with about 300000 clicks on it), but lately it has been acting badly, and now it is refusing to work at all.
So here I am, hoping to learn how to fix another machine in my life! Hello to all of you!
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