Hand and Portable Power Tool Repairers

Repair and adjust hand and power tools.

Job Task

• 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.
• 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.
• Records nature and extent of repairs performed.
• Maintains stock of parts.
• 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.
• Sharpens tools, such as picks, shovels, screwdrivers, and scoops, using bench grinder and emery wheel.

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