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Another day elbow deep
So a day written off because one of the printers was down. This was reported to me by the lads at 5.30 yesterday afternoon so I decided to leave it for today. Heads dropping out all over the place, so today at 8am I donned the Sherlock Holmes hat & started to investigate the possible causes. I’d assumed the lads had exhausted the obvious potential faults & so I was pretty much inside it by 9. Syringes & flush, no use, power cleans & clamps, no use either. It’s now 4pm, just found 6 empty ink cartridges in the machine & the lads out on site. They don’t venture onto this forum & will return to base completely oblivious as to what’s coming. The news might be worth a look tomorrow
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I know that it’s reeeeeally reeeeeeally bad of me to laugh but….. 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Cheered me right up!
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Wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t look like I’ve got full sleeve tattoos now
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I wouldn’t be to hard on the guys – we all do stupid things from time to time….
A couple of weeks ago I did a transit – the owner warned me the key was a bit "iffy". That same day we had a transit pickup in to do as well. After I finished the Transit I went to drive it out of the unit but the engine wouldn’t turn over. I phoned the owner and he was most apologetic and came along straight away to try and start the Van but he had no better luck than I had. Eventually we decided to push the van out, but the steering lock meant we couldn’t get it around the corner. Then I had the bright Idea to try the keys of the Pickup to see if they would release the lock….
….and that’s when we both realised I had been using the wrong key… :blushing:
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I think I’m more angry with myself to be honest Phill, no ink coming out the heads, should have checked the cartridges first, not 5 hours later.
My printers, my responsibility, my fault. As much as I hate to admit it! -
Oh no! I was once told by a wise man, “always check the simple things first”.
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In my defence, I asked twice if the cartridges were topped up. I kind of hoped that they were actually opening the filler cap to check. It would seem that they merely look at the outside of the tank (which is ink stain, not ink) Back to school I guess. No, I don’t remember actually explaining this to them but I also never checked if they could walk or open doors or even cross the odd road or two…
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quote Phill Fenton:….and that’s when we both realised I had been using the wrong key… :blushing:yes, and the bit you missed out was it was one of these keys you used. 😉 😆
Nothing worse Kevin, I have both days and weeks like that mate. :awkward:
about a month ago, I felt like all I did for a couple of days was fix machines, tidy up after folk, sort computers or software issues. a burst pipe, you name it! I let out a yelp midday saying "what am I here, a the f***en Janitor??" :awkward: :rollseyes: 😆 😆 😆 -
Ok I’m back in rant mode now & I thought I was calming down.
I do get that I’m not going to get half a dozen clones of me at work (the thought of that is truly scary) but to solve a problem is completely normal for me, but when I do it’s met with gasps like I’m Rachel Riley & just solved an impossible maths problem. Seems like a lot of effort to be that thick. -
I asked the question one day "did you load the proslide in the printer so I can run that van wrap"? "Yep" came the reply. Something made me check the machine a few metres into the job. Turned out to be Oracal 3651 super sticky calendered vinyl! I can just image how pissed off I’d have been on Friday morning to be standing with 16m of laminated calendered material to wrap a van!!! Simple mistake all the same, both materials were made by oracal.
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If the staff are all as good as you then eventually they’ll all start their own businesses [emoji23]
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To be fair, that’s exactly how I started
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I once poured black into my yellow tank. Taught it would be best to dilute it with 2 more litres of yellow. It didn’t work.
A very hungover me had an engineer laugh historically down the phone at me.
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