Friday, April 27, 2012

Techno-Peasantry in Action


A piece of paper got jammed deep inside my printer.   Distress call to Jerry.  Mutual agreement that printers are not worth a damn, bred to breakdown,  maddening, etc.  Was it possible to just pull the paper out?  (No.)   Printer instructions useless.   

We needed a long, grabby thing.



Assembled implements:  forceps from Jerry-the-entomologist, kitchen tongs from me

                                 


Born of desperation:  lint remover tape wrapped around a pencil
                                  




Jerry painstakingly removing bits of paper with the forceps




Success!  The rest of the page removed in pieces.  Surely there's a better way (besides throwing the printer out the window?) ? 

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