- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who buffs items, such as automobile trim or accessories, hardware, or fabricated plastic parts with cloth buffing wheel. Responsibilities include:
* Holds and moves parts against wheel to smooth surfaces, produce specified finish, or cut down plating defects, such as burns or salt deposits, using knowledge of metals and buffing operations.
* Coats buffing wheel by holding buffing compound stick against revolving wheel.
* Pushes and manipulates workpiece against buffing wheel to remove scratches and defects and produce specified finish, using knowledge of buffing operations and finishes.
* Replaces worn buffs, using wrench.
* Uses care not to cut through plate when buffing plated surfaces.
* May be designated according to type of material buffed as chrome buffer; copper buffer; nickel buffer.
* May polish articles and buff articles and be designated polisher and buffer i.
* May polish brass eye castings used in fitting wooden shuttles and clean castings in series of chemical solutions and be designated strapper and buffer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends torque-testing machine that measures strength of watch mainsprings. Responsibilities include:
* Positions barrel in testing holder.
* Moves controls and reads scale indicating strength of coiled spring.
* Segregates assemblies into trays according to strength measurements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines assembled watch hairsprings to determine if spring is in same plane and concentric with collet, and that space between collet and first inner spring is within acceptable limits, using loupe.
* Separates faulty assemblies for adjustment by hairspring truer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prints numerals, minute and second tracks, and company name onto timepiece dials, using printing equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Positions holding fixture and gelatinous head in printer.
* Places engraved metal plate in holding fixture and spreads ink over plate.
* Removes excess ink, using spatula.
* Lowers gelatinous head of transfer printer onto plate to transfer design from plate to head.
* Moves watch dial into position and lowers gelatinous head to print design on dial.
* Applies lacquer to specific parts of dial to protect them during brushing operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches dial screws to pillar plates preparatory to securing dial to watch, using screwdriver, tweezers, and loupe. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns number of pillar plates in holding fixture.
* Inserts and fastens screws to plates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles typewriter type-bar-and-segment units and bends ends of type bars to specified angles and clearances preparatory to type soldering, using handtools and hand-powered brake. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps segment to holding device and inserts type bars into segment slots.
* Pushes curved wire (fulcrum) through channel in segment and through holes in type bars to hold them in place.
* Moves bars to determine snugness of fit.
* Bends type-bars to fit precisely into segment slots, using special pliers.
* Grinds defective bars to fit, using emery wheel.
* Positions type-bar-and-segment assembly to holding plate on braking device.
* Moves levers to adjust quadrant (scale in degrees) to degree desired, to bend ends of type bars to specified angles and clearances, and to release bent type bars from holding and bending jaws.
* Removes formed type-bar-and-segment unit from braking device.
* Positions type-bar-and-segment assembly in guide-installation fixture and installs type guide, using special alignment tools and power screwdriver.
* Checks outside bars for guide clearance after removal from fixture, using gauge.
* May be designated according to work performed as type-bar-and-segment fitter; type-bar-and-segment former; type-bar-and-segment guide-installer; type-bar-and-segment spacer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who calibrates hydrometer tubes, using chemical solutions, marking device, and graduating machine. Responsibilities include:
* Mixes solutions of high, medium, and low specific gravity according to formula.
* Tests solutions, using standard hydrometer, and adjusts specific gravity of solutions.
* Places specified ballast weight into hydrometer float and seals hydrometer, using sealing compound.
* Immerses hydrometer into prepared solutions and marks levels of each solution on hydrometer tube.
* Graduates hydrometer, using engraving machine.
* Lines paper or metal scale into degrees, using drafter's pen or metal scriber, and secures scale inside hydrometer to ensure lines correspond to graduations on hydrometer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who alters weight of watch balance wheels to correct timing of movement, using jeweler's tools and loupe. Responsibilities include:
* Receives movement from timing inspector with indication of rate of gain or loss in time.
* Replaces balance wheel screw with one of heavier weight or adds washer of specified weight when movement is fast, using screwdriver.
* Repeats operation on opposite side of balance wheel to maintain poise. Replaces balance wheel or files angle of screw point to reduced weight, using hand file.
* Repeats operation on opposite side of wheel to maintain poise.
* Observes minute parts, using loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles plumbing fixtures, such as faucets, stoppers, and shower heads, using handtools and power tools. Responsibilities include:
* Screws pipe fittings into grease traps, check valves, and other plumbing fixtures, using pipe wrench or power wrench.
* Drills holes in fixtures for bolt attachments, using power drill.
* Fits parts together and secures parts with screws, bolts, or solder, using handtools and flame solderer.
* May adjust valves and other linkage to ensure free action of moving parts.
Industry:Professional careers
