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silverware assembler
A professional who assembles silver hollowware, such as lazy susans, teapots, creamers, and chafing dishes. Responsibilities include:
- Drills holes in parts, using bench drill.
- Screws, bolts, or pins base, legs, and lid to body of hollowware, using handtools.
- Adjusts length of legs, or flattens base with mallet so article stands firm and level.
- Mixes plastic ingredients, following formula, to form adhesive compound, and glues handle to hollowware.
- May ream and tap holes, using bench drill and tap.
- May fasten parts together by swedging.
- May buff and polish articles after assembly to remove finger marks.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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- Jason F
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(United States of America)