- Industria: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends vertical drill that bores and broaches pinholes in watch regulators. Responsibilities include:
* Positions regulator in drilling jig, using tweezers, and closes jig.
* Places jig on table beneath drill, aligns bushing guide holes of jig with drill, using loupe, and depresses drill to bore holes in regulator.
* Removes drilled regulator from jig, positions and aligns holes under tapered broach (boring tool), and pulls handle to automatic stop to shape and enlarge holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fuses diamond and carbon edges to circular steel saw blades, using oven. Responsibilities include:
* Weighs carbide, nickel, iron, and diamond ingredients in specified percentages on jeweler's scale.
* Pours compound in form clamped to saw-blank edges, and places saw blank in oven at preset temperature and under specified atmospheric conditions to fuse compound to saw edge.
* May operate metalworking tools, such as grinder, lathe, and drill press, to finish edge of saw.
* May measure edge of saw with micrometer and pressure gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans dust, dirt, grease, and lint from machines and auxiliary equipment, such as tanks and pipelines, in industrial plant or aboard ship, using cleaning solutions, waste, rags, waterhose, pumps, lint vacuum system, airhose, brushes, and scraping tools. Responsibilities include:
* Cleans screen on lint vacuum system and replaces worn screen.
* May clean plant sewage treatment system and water supply wells.
* May remove machine guards and accessories, using handtools.
* May paint exposed surfaces of machines to prevent rust.
* May oil moving parts or wearing surfaces.
* May clean floors around machine, using broom or vacuum cleaner.
* May be designated according to machine or part of machine cleaned as bottle-packing-machine cleaner; creel cleaner; opening-machine cleaner; pin cleaner; rack cleaner; shafting cleaner.
* May be designated: card cleaner; guide-rail cleaner; loom blower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates, assembles, and repairs photographic equipment except cameras, using handtools and power tools. Responsibilities include:
* Examines equipment, such as photograph printers, print washers, driers and straighteners, and mounting presses.
* Replaces defective wood and metal parts and makes minor repairs, such as cleaning and tightening connections, soldering and welding broken metal parts, and bending and installing piping.
* Lays out framework dimensions on channel and angle stock, using tape measure, square, and scribe and cuts and grinds stock to dimensional specifications to fabricate equipment parts, using power saws, sanders, grinders, and files.
* Assembles frames and installs parts according to blueprint specifications, using handtools, such as drills, wrenches, reamers, and hole punches.
* Installs electrical wiring, following blueprints.
* Requisitions parts and materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic press that compresses powder in cardboard cases for use as pyrotechnic (firework) flares and signals. Responsibilities include:
* Places cases in mold of press and locks mold.
* Weighs and pours specified amounts of powder into cases.
* Pulls lever or pushes button to raise press bed and force ram into mold to compress powder in case.
* Releases pressure and removes mold.
* Breaks open molds with mallet and removes containers.
* May add specified quantities of explosive powder to form igniting charge.
* May be designated according to type of pyrotechnic loaded as incendiary grenade press tender; smoke signal press tender; star signal press tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs, cleans, and adjusts watches, clocks, and related instruments, using watchmaker's tools, measuring instruments, bench machines, and cleaning equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Removes mechanism from case and examines mechanism for defective parts or accumulation of foreign matter, using loupe.
* Disassembles parts, such as hands, mainspring, escape wheels, and balance wheel, using pliers, screwdriver, and tweezers.
* Places parts into watch-cleaning machine and starts machine that cleans, rinses, and dries parts.
* Tests truing ii of balance wheel assembly, using truing calipers and trues assembly, using tweezers.
* Repairs damaged or worn parts, using watchmaker's lathe and drill press.
* Replaces broken parts, such as mainsprings, hairspring, jewels, stems, escape wheel, and pinions, using handtools.
* Assembles mechanism and oils moving parts.
* Places mechanism in demagnetizing machine that automatically removes magnetic properties from mechanism.
* Replaces mechanism in case and tests assembled instrument for accuracy, using watch-rate recorder.
* Adjusts balance wheel speed regulator to synchronize reading of instrument with recorder.
* May repair jewelry.
* May salvage and repair watchcases and be designated watchcases repairer.
* May repair clocks used in electric power system timing equipment and be designated time-clock repairer.
* May be designated according to type of instrument or instrument subassembly repaired as demand equipment repairer; hairspring repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to insert clock and watch assemblies in cases. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts and secures crown and stem into clock and watch movements, using loupe, tweezers, screwdriver, and other jeweler's tools.
* Cleans case, using airhose, and inserts movement into case.
* Presses revolving plastic cup against crown or rubs crown against plastic strip to wind movement.
* Sets watch to specified time prior to testing.
* Secures watertight cases, using pliers, or places assembly in device that tightens case automatically.
* May remove temporary crown and stem prior to assembly, using handtools.
* May measure stem, using gauge, and file stem to specified length.
* May screw crowns onto stems.
* May test waterproof watches in air pressure and water tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who straightens metal workpieces to blueprint specifications, using handtools and knowledge of metal properties. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls workpiece on flat surface or mounts and rotates it between centers to ascertain irregularities visually or with dial indicator.
* Positions workpiece on surface plate or anvil and hammers workpiece at points of irregularity to straighten it.
* Hammers mandrel through cylindrical objects, such as pipes or tubing to remove dents or kinks.
* Measures straightened workpiece for conformance with specifications, using straightedge, micrometers, and calipers.
* May straighten workpiece in straightening press.
* May heat workpiece in furnace or with heating torch to straighten it.
* May be designated according to parts straightened as tool straightener; gun parts straightener.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests and adjusts watch balance wheels to ensure that rim is concentric with staff axis. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts balance wheel and staff on test stand or between jaws of truing ii calipers, using tweezers, and twirls wheel by hand.
* Determines that dial gauge readings are within acceptable limits as rim of revolving wheel brushes against gauge arm on test stand, or determines no clearance variation between rim of wheel and caliper index pointer placed above rim, using loupe.
* Bends rim to eliminate distortions, using tweezers or rim wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts and trims edges of wire screening or fabric to specified dimensions, using hand shears and hone. Responsibilities include:
* Measures material to locate specified point of cut, using rule, scale, or pattern.
* Cuts material following line between parallel wires of weave or along edge of pattern.
* Inspects and hones cut edges to remove burrs and even tips of wires, using magnifying glass and hand hone.
* May hold workpieces in position for brazing.
* May clean or polish finished workpiece to remove tarnish, using specified cleaning solution or polishing wheel.
* May cut and trim wire screening, using scissors, power shears, power slitting machine, and grinding machine.
* May solder edges of screen of wire cloth to form seam and be designated seamer.
Industry:Professional careers
