, X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 17448K Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu / Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!pratta " Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers3 Subject: Re: CE / Repairman stories - New thread(s)  Message-ID: <na6qrsr@rpi.edu> 8 From: pratta@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico) Date: 18 Dec 91 23:58:26 GMTM References: <1991Dec16.160050.12879@mdms.moore.com> <555@wookie.dbaccess.com> 7 Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY D In-Reply-To: steve@dbaccess.com's message of 17 Dec 91 21: 04:54 GMT' Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu 	 Lines: 37        > This gets my vote as the best use of food to repair a printer:  K    RPI uses two Xerox 8790 laser printers to handle high volume output. One M usually is filled with three-hole paper, the other has standard paper. Today, K when I went in to work, the 3-hole printer was making a very loud, very low K rumble that was shaking everything near the printer. The operator said that J something was wrong with the blower motor, and that Xerox had been called.O Shortly thereafter, a repairman showed up, but not to fix the printer. It seems M that a programmer had called Xerox because he was unhappy with his printouts. N So this repairman went to work on the software. A few minutes later, another  K repairman showed up, this time to fix the printer. He heard it running, and O asked if the noise he heard was the problem. When we said yes, he turned to the 7 first repairman and asked, "Did you bring the popcorn?"    
   Popcorn?  O    He then put his jacket back on and went out, saying he had to go back to his O car to get his popcorn. And sure enough, he came back with a jar of it. Gourmet K popcorn at that. He went to work, cleaned a few things, then calmly poured  M some popcorn into the blower duct. He turned to me and said, "you're going to O hear a loud noise. Don't be concerned about it." He then turned the printer on, N sending popcorn through the blower, and yes, it did make a very loud noise. HeC did it a second time, while commenting on the price of the popcorn.   N    Sure enough, the rumble disappeared. He said that the only other fix was toN take out and replace the blower, which would take half a day and be very, veryJ expensive. Turns out, the problem is caused by toner on the blower blades.  M    Now, what happens when the printer runs for a while and heats up? POP!!!!!   %    Wonder if that will quiet my PS/2?   O -------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Anthony Prattico, pratta@rpi.edu- Shall I melt some butter for the disk drives? 