Well, I had a thought today, so I went from removing a single screw to having a pile of TWENTY-SEVEN PARTS!! Yeah, I was going to just remove 14 of the articulated arms to show Fixer in his "surplus property" plight. Then I started thinking why not go on and remove all the arms and get him ready for a repaint. Then I thought... let's remove this screw and separate as many of the pieces as possible for the best paintjob possible.....
When the Imperial Military originally sold off a quantity of FX-7 units as surplus, the more specialized medical instrument/appendages were removed for controlled disposal. This left the units with their main grasper arm and four fine manipulators, out of an original eighteen. Unfortunately, this left the units virtually useless. They could handle applying medpacks and diagnosing ailments and injuries, but with no specialized tools, there was little they could do. One unit, FX-0R8, found its way into the hands of a light-freighter owner who regularly carried passengers. Having the FX-droid aboard met the BoSS requirements of a medical attendant for a commercial vessel. After a particularly disastrous run, the ship's owner found himself at a salvage-yard, unable to pay for all the parts his ship needed. A fast-talking deal threw the droid into the payment and the two parted company. FX-0R8 then languished in the scrapyard, forgotten in one corner of a massive warehouse, until the chief engineer of the Macy Jade found the droid and made a deal with the scrapyard's owner to buy it. At this point, Z'zik began modifying and upgrading the droid - until this time left in its basic Imperial livery - so as to have an assistant engineer aboard the ship. The droid acquired a number of tool-attachments which were never intended for use on its frame, giving it the look of some mad scientist's experiment from the worst of horror holovids. FX-0R8 developed a reputation amongst the Macy Jade's crew as being able to fix anything, any time and they bestowed upon the droid the name "Fixer."