DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

• Disassembles appliance to examine specific mechanical and electrical parts to diagnose problem.
• Instructs customer regarding operation and care of appliance and provides emergency service number.
• Traces electrical circuits, following diagram, to locate shorts and grounds, using electrical circuit testers.
• Measures and performs minor carpentry procedures to area where appliance is to be installed.
• Records nature of maintenance or repair in log and returns to business office for further assignments.
• Maintains stock of parts used in on-site installation, maintenance, and repair of appliance.
• Cleans, lubricates, and touches up minor scratches on newly installed or repaired appliance.
• Replaces worn and defective parts, such as switches, bearings, transmissions, belts, gears, circuit boards, or defective wiring.
• Reassembles unit, making necessary adjustments to ensure efficient operation.
• Connects appliance to power source and uses test instruments to calibrate timers and thermostats and to adjust contact points.
• Observes and examines appliance during operation to detect specific malfunction, such as loose parts or leaking fluid.
• Assembles electrical parts, such as alternators, generators, starting devices, and switches, following schematic drawings, using hand, machine, and power tools.
• Repairs and rebuilds defective mechanical parts in electric motors, generators, and related equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
• Tests for overheating, using speed gauges and thermometers.
• Replaces defective parts, such as coil leads, carbon brushes, and connecting wires, using soldering equipment.
• Rewires electrical systems and repairs or replaces electrical accessories.
• Disassembles defective unit, using hand tools.
• Cuts and removes parts, such as defective coils and insulation.
• Tests charges and replaces batteries.
• Adjusts working parts, such as fan belt tension, voltage output, contacts and springs, using hand tools, and verifies corrections, using gauges.
• Lifts units or parts, such as motors or generators, using crane or chain hoist.
• Scrapes and cleans units or parts, using cleaning solvent, and lubricates moving parts.
• Records repairs required, parts used, and labor time.
• Refaces, reams, and polishes commutators and machine parts to specified tolerances, using machine tools.
• Cuts and forms insulation and inserts insulation into armature, rotor, or stator slots.
• Inspects parts for wear or damage, or reads work order or schematic drawings to determine required repairs.
• Measures velocity, horsepower, r.p.m., amperage, circuitry, and voltage of unit or parts, using electrical meters and mechanical testing devices.
• Reassembles repaired electric motors to specified requirements and ratings, using hand tools and electrical meters.
• Installs, secures, and aligns parts, using hand tools, welding equipment, and electrical meters.
• Rewinds coils on core while core is in slots, or makes replacement coils, using coil-winding machine.
• Inspects electrical connections, wiring charging relays, charging resistance box, and storage batteries, following wiring diagram.
• Removes and disassembles cells and cathode assembly, using tension handles, prybars, and hoist, and cuts wires to faulty cells.
• Connects battery to battery charger and adjusts rheostat to start flow of electricity into battery.
• Repairs or adjusts defective parts, using hand tools or power tools.
• Disconnects electrical leads and removes battery, using hand tools and hoist.
• Installs recharged or repaired battery or cells, using hand tools.
• Cleans cells, cell assemblies, glassware, leads, electrical connections, and battery poles, using scraper, steam, water, emery cloth, power grinder, or acid.
• Fabricates and assembles electrolytic cell parts for storage batteries.
• Compiles operating and maintenance records.
• Seals joints with putty, mortar, and asbestos, using putty extruder and knife.
• Repairs battery-charging equipment.
• Measures cathode blade and anode, using ruler, and rate of mercury flow, using stopwatch.
• Secures cell on rocker mechanism or attaches assemblies, using bolts or cement.
• Positions and levels, or signals worker to position and level, cell, anode, or cathode, using hoist and leveling jacks.
• Adds water and acid to battery cells to obtain specified concentration.
• Replaces defective parts, such as cell plates, fuses, lead parts, switches, wires, anodes, cathodes, and rheostat.
• Tests condition, fluid level, and specific gravity of electrolyte cells, using voltmeter, hydrometer, and thermometer.
• Inspects battery for defects, such as dented cans, damaged carbon rods and terminals, and defective seals.
• Cleans transformer case, using scrapers and solvent.
• Reassembles transformer.
• Replaces worn or defective parts, using hand tools.
• Inspects transformer for defects, such as cracked weldments.
• Signals crane operator to raise heavy transformer component subassemblies.
• Secures input and output wires in position.
• Winds replacement coils, using coil-winding machine.
• Dismantles lamination assembly, preparatory to cleaning and inspection.
• Fills reassembled transformer with oil until coils are submerged.
• Drains and filters transformer oil.
• Disassembles distribution, streetlight, or instrument transformers.
• Solders, wraps, and coats wires to ensure proper insulation.
• Inserts and hammers ready-made coils in place.
• Bolts porcelain insulators to wood parts to assemble hot stools.
• Cleans and polishes parts, using solvent and buffing wheel.
• Tests armatures and motors to ensure proper operation.
• Solders ends of coils to commutator segments.
• Disassembles salvaged equipment used in electric-power systems, such as air circuit breakers and lightning arresters, using hand tools, and discards non-repairable parts.
• Replaces broken and defective parts.
• Cuts insulating material to fit slots on armature core, and places material in bottom of core slots.
• Winds new coils on armatures of generators and motors.
• Repairs or replaces tools and defective parts, such as handles, vises, pliers, or metal buckets, using soldering tool, gas torch, power tools, or hand tools.
• Cleans polishing and buffing wheels, using steam cleaning machine, to remove abrasives and bonding materials and salvages cloth from wheel.
• Sprays, brushes, or recoats surface of polishing wheel and places it in oven to dry.
• Maintains stock of parts.
• Records nature and extent of repairs performed.
• Examines and tests tools to determine defects or cause of malfunction, using hand and power tools, observation, and experience.
• Disassembles and reassembles tools, using hand tools, power tools, or arbor press.
• Verifies and adjusts alignment and dimensions of parts, using gauges and tracing lathe.
• Sharpens tools, such as picks, shovels, screwdrivers, and scoops, using bench grinder and emery wheel.