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A professional who tends lathe that cuts decorative v-shaped circular groove in faces of heattreated watch wheels.
* Depresses pedal to open chuck, inserts wheel, and releases pedal to secure wheel in chuck.
* Brushes lubricant on cutter and turns wheel to advance cutter into rotating watch wheel to cut groove.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects proof (struck from new dies) coins produced by u.s.
* Mint for imperfections, such as burrs, scratches, and flattened edges.
* Packs satisfactory units for mailing to coin collectors in specially designed protective envelopes.
* May inspect medals, lapel buttons, ribbons, and similar items attached to coins for decorative or display purposes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and polishes timepiece dials or dial blanks, using power brushing wheel or handbrush. Responsibilities include:
* Applies abrasive powder to dials.
* Holds dials against rotating brush or manipulates brush over dials to clean and polish dials.
* Examines surface of dials subsequent to cleaning and polishing to verify specified cleanliness and finish, using loupe.
* Rinses dials in water or alcohol and dries dials in heated centrifuge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who polishes sterling or silver-plated hollowware, such as bowls, dishes, trays, and flatware, by applying compound of powdered pumice and oil to workpiece while turning it against felt, leather, or brush polishing wheel. Responsibilities include:
* Mixes pumice and oil according to established proportions for type of workpiece being polished.
* Holds workpiece against revolving brush to remove excess solder from joints, using care not to cut through soldered joint.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating watch hairsprings. Responsibilities include:
* Trains workers in performance of tasks.
* Requisitions supplies and materials.
* Confers with other supervisory personnel to coordinate interdepartmental workflow.
* Confers with workers' representatives to resolve grievances.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who polishes industrial sewing and knitting needles, using buffing wheels. Responsibilities include:
* Picks up rack of needles, using tongs and holds needles against buffing wheels to polish needles to specification.
* Examines needles by feel and using eye loupe to determine if polished surface meets specifications.
* Conditions surface of buffing wheels, balances wheels, and aligns tongs to maintain polishing equipment, using handtools.
* Records quantity of needles polished, date polished, and initials work ticket.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who polishes and buffs steel and stainless steel articles, such as ice cream freezer lids, soda fountain dispensers, storage tanks, and display cases, using portable polisher, buffing brush, and emery cloth. Responsibilities include:
* Secures workpiece to bench or table and guides abrasive polishing wheel over workpiece to remove scratches and other defects from metal surface.
* Dips buffing brush into abrasive cake and lubricant.
* Moves buffing brush over surfaces of workpiece to remove fine scratches and to achieve specified finish.
* Polishes recessed areas with fine grade emery cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with filing, grinding, buffing, cleaning, and polishing metal, plastic, or rubber parts or objects other than by use of production machines.
* Tool sharpening occupations are included in group 701.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lathe that polishes leaves, pivots, or staffs of clock pinions. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps part in chuck of lathe.
* Starts lathe and swings tool rest into position.
* Forces slip of bell metal against rotating part to smooth surface.
* Repeats process, polishing part with slip of oilstone and buffing part with rouge to produce smooth, even surface.
* Examines part for surface defects, using loupe and tweezers.
* May be designated according to part polished as pivot polisher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who bends metal fan blades by hand to adjust pitch (angle) of blade, and to align blades for vibrationless tracking. Responsibilities include:
* Places blade assembly on spindle of gauging fixture, and manually rotates blades between set of pin gauges.
* Sights across blade surface and tips of gauge pins, and bends and twists blade into contact with pin ends.
* May use wrench or bending tool to adjust heavy-duty blades and blade carriers.
* May align and adjust pitch of oil-retaining ring at hub of commercial or industrial fan.
Industry:Professional careers
