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"FITTER"
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Job Description:

  • 1) Fits and assembles structural frameworks and housings from materials, such as angle iron, I-beams, and plate steel, using handtools and welding equipment and following blueprint specifications: Examines blueprints and materials list to obtain parts specifications.

  • 2) Lays out parts dimensions on worktable, using square, chalk line, and soapstone.

  • 3) Tack-welds scrap metal to outline to provide jig for assembly.

  • 4) Positions parts in jig and files, chisels, and grinds parts, as indicated, to fit them together.

  • 5) May heat parts with acetylene torch and bend them in vise, on anvil, or around stakes mounted in table.

  • 6) Tack-welds fitted parts together or directs FITTER HELPER to tack-weld parts.

  • 7) May heat parts with acetylene torch and dip parts in cyanide bath to harden.

  • 8) Periodically compares dimensions of assembly to blueprint specifications, using square, rule, and calipers.

  • 9) Works to tolerances of.

  • 10) 0625 inch.

  • 11) May anneal parts with acetylene torch to remove stresses of welding.

  • 12) May fasten parts together with acetylene torch and brazing rod.

 

 

 


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DOT:   801.381-014

Job Number: 4064