- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who cleans and polishes chromium or nickel plated articles with cloth and liquid cleanser.
* May remove paint or other foreign matter adhering to surface of article with solvent, knife, or steel wool.
* May be designated according to type of metal cleaned as chrome cleaner; nickel cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fastens metal or plastic covers to balance and scale frames to enclose mechanism, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Fits parts, such as backplates, front and back scrolls, glass lens, and name and patent plates to frame, according to blueprint, using handtools, such as file, drill, and screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists instrument repairer i in installing, repairing, and adjusting recording and control instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Changes and collects charts on recording instruments.
* Observes operating condition of instruments and reports abnormal readings to instrument mechanic.
* Drills holes in masonry or structural steel for installation of instruments, using electric and pneumatic tools.
* Repairs and finishes parts, using buffers, grinders, and drill press.
* Paints instrument casings and panels, using brush or spray gun.
* Carries tools and materials, cleans parts and work areas, and erects hoists and scaffolds.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shapes metal eye castings to fit in wooden shuttles. Responsibilities include:
* Files and sands eye castings to specified shape and smoothness, using vise, hand files, and emery cloth.
* Removes completed castings from vise and places castings in containers.
* Cleans brass particles from files by drawing file card (block of wood with even rows of metal pins attached) through file grooves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs wheel and sleeve assembly in clocks preparatory to inserting hour hand. Responsibilities include:
* Places wheel and sleeve assembly over center staff protruding through front frame and meshes assembly with dial wheel pinion.
* Places time and alarm train onto staff and inserts staff through hole in clock frame.
* Places clock frame in jig of press that secures assemblies by means of washer and collet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches balance wheel and hairspring assembly to watch or clock movement, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Positions balance wheel and hairspring assembly between balance stud and balance screw of watch or clock movement assembly, using tweezers.
* Tightens balance screw to secure balance wheel and hairspring assembly to movement, using wrench.
* Inserts end of hairspring through eye (slot) of regulator and into hole of hairspring stud, and inserts hairspring wedge into hole of hairspring stud to secure end of spring to stud, using tweezers.
* Engages impulse pin to pallet to activate movement, using tweezers.
* Oils specified parts of watch or clock assembly, using oil-filled hypodermic needle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who marks balance scale dials by hand or using silk screen equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine type of dial required and selects specified dial blanks from stockroom.
* Lays out and marks special order dials, using pivoted straightedge, pen, and ink.
* Marks regular order dials, using silk screen, paint, and squeegee.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who screws watch balance and balance bridge assembly to pillar plate. Places pillar plate in holding fixture, and positions balance and bridge assembly on plate securing with screws.
* Tests balance for endshake (vertical play) by gently moving balance, using tweezers, and determining from experience if shake is within acceptable limits.
* Raises bridge slightly, using tweezers, or disassembles bridge and presses down on reverse side to correct shake.
* Touches oil-filled hypodermic needle to jewel to oil lower balance jewel prior to assembling.
* Observes minute parts with aid of loupe and handles parts with tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who constructs metal models of jewelry articles for use in making molds for casting jewelry parts. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out design on metal stock, using gravers.
* Cuts metal along markings and smooths edges, using handsaw and file.
* Examines and measures metal parts for conformance to design specifications on scale drawing.
* Hammers, carves, and scrapes rough model to produce specified relief design, using handtools.
* Drills holes in model, using drill press.
* Assembles and solders parts together.
* Polishes metal surfaces, using abrasive wheel.
* May make and sharpen tools.
* May modify design specifications to conform to production requirements.
* May construct preliminary model of wax or wire.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts goldleaf sheets to specified sizes and fills interleaved books with cut sheets, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Removes sheet of goldleaf from mold, using wood pinchers.
* Places sheets on worktable and smooths sheets preparatory to cutting.
* Cuts sheets to specified size, using cutting device.
* Places goldleaf in interleaved book, using wood pinchers.
* May operate electric cutting machine to cut goldleaf.
Industry:Professional careers
