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Subject:RE: The OTHER Test From:BMcClain -at- centura -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:02:43 -0400
Only tangentially about technical communication:
I once had a job in school where I copied engineering change notices all
night long. One photocopier used for K-sized drawings (vellum rolls) was
big enough that there was an access hatch to *step inside* the thing to
clear paper jams. And, joy of joys, if you didn't put the paper in squarely,
it tended to *catch fire* so you'd have to clean the drum afterward. And
nobody told me about this propensity until *after* I'd hosed down the thing
with a fire extinguisher, requiring the drum to be replaced. It seems the
correct procedure would've been to let the copy paper burn (we'd cut sheets
to size from a roll kept elsewhere), then clean the soot from the drum with
brass polish.
Bill McClain
("Writers are always selling somebody out." - Joan Didion)
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From: bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com [mailto:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]
Subject: RE: The OTHER Test
Actually, in my first tech writing job I did operate heavy equipment: 2 1/2
and 5 ton Army trucks. I never actually drove one (since that requires a
CDL), but I had to run some of the heavy hydraulics and pneumatics from time
to time in my research and validation.
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