I had the service call from hell today. Went to a customer with an ir400 with the A-1 feeder that needed the serrated feed belt replaced. I even had some in the car. What is usually a 30 minute procedure at most turned into an hour and a half all because of a bushing that fell into the guts of the feeder. The rest of the day went down hill fast. Thank God there is tomorrow.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
With that doc feeder if you can find the missing part, the day was not so bad.
I have dropped a couple of drive pins on the model. I am anal about tearing a feeder apart to get dropped parts back, that model managed to keep a couple of pins over the years.
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Not the howl, but the charge of the lone wolf, leads the pack to run and follow. Leadership by example.
This was another FORMER IKON account and really had no choice. We are starting to get more and more calls from my old customers because the old office can't seem to fix shit anymore. Their best and most seasoned techs are leaving faster than they can be replaced and I'm sorta gloating about it. I know that may be wrong but Ikon really screwed me really bad. The locals that I used to call on know where I am and are starting to call. That is what happens when you give above and beyond service and IKON was NOT about that.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
With that doc feeder if you can find the missing part, the day was not so bad.
I have dropped a couple of drive pins on the model. I am anal about tearing a feeder apart to get dropped parts back, that model managed to keep a couple of pins over the years.
That too was in the mix on this call. It just would not quit. Luckily I am smart enough to keep extra pins and clip ect. ect.. I did get the bushing back but the pin is in the black hole of the A-1. I did get it fixed and got another new customer though.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
I do not know if you have ever worked on the feed section of a 6085?
When you pull the gears and pulleys on the back there are about 5 pins. I lost one on a bad day once.
In fear of it blowing the DC-Controller ( it is mounted right below this section ) I started to rip it apart. I had the lower left of this machine in a pile in the customers office when I got to the bottom.
In the bottom of the machine I found every pin and chim that was ever lost. I must have had a handfull of them that had been dropped over the 15 million or so on the meter.
I felt proud.
The scanner let loose the next week. Set screw came loose on the shaft and at that speed the copies never looked the same.
LOL
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Not the howl, but the charge of the lone wolf, leads the pack to run and follow. Leadership by example.
Oh Yeah, the good old 6085. That was a really sweet machine. The NP6285 sucked because of the SHITTY finisher. I was the first in Memphis at Ikon to get trained on these boxes and really enjoyed the NP6085. The Grand Casino had three of em. The one in the mailroom did 300k a month. Very few emergency calls. The last high speed analog.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
When the scanner came to life it would break your arm. Not like these modern day wimpy machines. I stopped wearing a wedding ring and a tie when i started working on those.
When talking dropping things in a machine. We had a client that one of the teachers...
it was a 6030 I think. Towards the front of the platen glass there was just space for her charm bacelet to get lodged in it. when the scanner came accross the charm hit the lamp lead.
We heard about that one for a while.
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Not the howl, but the charge of the lone wolf, leads the pack to run and follow. Leadership by example.
When at school the instructer offered me his motorcycle helmet because I kept hitting my head on the rear cover mounting brackets and bleeding on the floor.That machine would actually kill you if you wernt careful.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
My brother-in-law who I could still kick his ass for getting me started in this bidness had to go to the ER becaues of his wedding band being melted to his finger in a copier. He also had his right index finger nearly severed from a Mita DC161 drum drive chain. Believe it or not he is one of the best techs that I've had the privilage to work with.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
Yes the fingers are sorta necessary if ya want to do things like tie your shoes and stuff. I have not worn a neck tie in years because of the dangers involved. I aint a banker or a lawyer, just a high priced mechanic.
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Like the United States Postal Service,It's a miracle it works.
I had a picker finger spring pop off yesterday on a copystar 3035, I took the whole left door off and found it.
It is a great feeling though, that is finding something you have dropped in a machine. And how hard tou concentrate afterwards , not to drop the piece again.
Thank God there is tomorrow.
That machine would actually kill you if you wernt careful.
