- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends single-or-multiple-holder polishing machines that polish beveled edges on rachet and winding wheels or endstone caps. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts wheels on rubber heads or endstone caps over pins protruding from holder face.
* Applies compounds to product or polishing laps.
* Positions lap over product or vice versa.
* Starts machine and sets timer for specified polishing period.
* Loads next set of holders.
* Inspects products for conformance to specifications.
* Imparts finish to wheels with cast-iron lap and polishes finish with lead-tin lap.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sharpens boring tools, such as bits and router cutters, using oilstone, and bench grinder with tool-holding adapters. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts bit into collet of tool adapter, and turns handwheels to adjust relative angle of bit axis and grinding wheel surface, according to specifications.
* Starts bench grinder, and turns handwheels to move bit against grinding wheel, and turns bit to sharpen each cutting edge.
* Rubs bit on oilstone by hand to smooth edges and complete sharpening.
* May file auger spurs to sharpen them.
* May sharpen cutlery and small shop tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bit-sharpening machine to shape and sharpen detachable bits of mining equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts bits into clamps of power-driven revolving drum and fastens them in place, using wrench.
* Turns handwheel to move bit against grinding wheels and to turn bit to sharpen cutting and reduce it to gauge size.
* Lubricates sharpening machine and changes worn grinding wheels, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bit-sharpening machine to shape and sharpen detachable bits of mining equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts bits into clamps of power-driven revolving drum and fastens them in place, using wrench.
* Turns handwheel to move bit against grinding wheels and to turn bit to sharpen cutting and reduce it to gauge size.
* Lubricates sharpening machine and changes worn grinding wheels, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine, equipped with power-driven wire brush, that polishes bottoms of metal dry cell battery containers (cans). Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps box of cans into tray on bed of machine.
* Presses cans into tray to level bottoms.
* Start rapidly rotating brush.
* Grasps handle on tray and slides tray back and forth to bring bottoms into contact with brush.
* Inspects can bottoms to ensure cleanliness.
* Withdraws tray and inverts it over box to dump cans.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bevels watch screwheads or polishes cap jewel plates. Respnsibilities include:
* Secures watch part, shellacked onto surface of metal blocks, in holding fixture and starts machine that presses block of parts against rotating brush to bevel edges of slot or outside diameter of screwheads.
* Spreads abrasive mixture over brush and sets automatic timer to polish plates for specified period.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that grinds center-pinion pivots, shoulders, and similar watch parts to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts pivots into chuck or collet of machine, using fingers or tweezers, and starts machine.
* Removes product when machine stops and measures part for conformance to specifications, using gauge.
* May clean and oil machine and change machine belts as needed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes burrs from watch pinions and similar timing-device parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts part in deburring-machine chuck or collet and adjusts levers or depresses pedals to feed part against tool that grinds burrs.
* Examines parts to ensure removal of burrs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes burrs from watch pinions and similar timing-device parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts part in deburring-machine chuck or collet and adjusts levers or depresses pedals to feed part against tool that grinds burrs.
* Examines parts to ensure removal of burrs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic deburring machines that remove rough edges from metal slide-fastener links attached to tape. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions carton of stringer (one side of fastener chain) behind machine and threads end through guides, tension bars, and under wire brushes to pickup drum.
* Starts machine and observes passage of stringer through rotating brushes onto receiving drum.
* Examines brushed stringer to verify smoothness of surface.
* Notifies supervisor of machine malfunctioning.
Industry:Professional careers
