Re: In Which We Brag About Our Petty Accomplishments
Fixed a giant ugly Xerox color photocopier.
If you know Xerox, you know they give you no hardware manuals, no nothing. Even the instructions for replacing consumables are only included in their packaging. We only know what the error codes mean because of other desperate people asking other desperate people on the internet.
So I was understandably nervous when I was asked to clean out the blue dust that was messing up every page. You have to dig pretty deep to get anywhere. Some Xerox have everything nicely arranged in slide drawers? Not this one.
Clean it out, and the transfer belt mysteriously stops working... Four disassemblies and reassemblies later, it's still malfunctioning and has developed a clicking noise... I doubt there's anything wrong mechanically, maybe it's starting in the wrong place, hitting an end stop and giving up? So I resort to an old inkjet trick - unplug it right in the middle of it moving its motors. That seemed to reseat something and it stopped clicking and coughed back into motion.
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