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Spent 2 hours troubleshooting a printer jam that was just a paper clip stuck in the back

I was about to toss my $200 HP printer after repeatedly clearing paper jams, only to find a bent paper clip wedged near the rollers. Has anyone else had a small object cause way more chaos than expected in their tech?
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rivera.simon
Yeah totally agree with @taylor_mitchell80 on that. It's always the tiny random junk that slips in and screws everything up, not even a real problem. One time I found a dried up dead spider in my laptop fan that had been making this horrible noise for weeks.
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taylor_mitchell80
Read something the other day about someone's kid shoving a coin into a disc drive and it taking hours to fish out. Always the smallest stuff that causes the biggest headaches.
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