Job Description:

• 1) Positions, glues, and aligns agate bearings in scale housings and bridges, base plates, and spiders: Mixes cement ingredients according to formula.

• 2) Cleans agate seats, using files.

• 3) Positions part in holding fixture.

• 4) Coats agates and part seats with cement, positions agates in seats, and screws clamp into fixture to hold agates in place.

• 5) Places clamped part and fixture in oven to harden cement.

• 6) Sights along rods or straightedge to verify alignment of agates.

• 7) Repositions bearings to correct misalignment, using handtools, or resets agate bearing.