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On the Job Training

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OJT hours

Safety

100

Use of personal protective equipment; safe use of hand tools, power tools, and machinery. Basic
First Aid and CPR.

Drills

500

Kinds of drills, tapping, reaming, lapping, counter-boring, countersinking, grinding, lubricants, speeds and fuels, safety.

Milling Machines (Vertical and Horizontal)

Use of dividing head, spline, milling, fluting spiral milling, rack cutting, cutter milling, set-up tram bridge portheads, rotary tables, speeds, feeds, lubricants, safety.

Grinders

Selection of grinding wheels, mounting wheels, taper form, angle and hole grinding, grinding of mills, speeds, feeds.
Use of gauge blocks and measuring instruments, jig grinding, injector pins, safety.

Lathes (Engine and Bench)

Use of face plates, straight turning, facing, tapping, threading, set-up, speed, feeds, lubricants, safety.

Bench and Die Work

Use of gauge blocks and measuring instruments, use of hand tools, assembly and repair of molds and dies, finishing of dies, shut off and fitting.

Polishing and Handwork

950

Polishing mold using different grits of paper, stones, or hand tools, mold cavities, cores, pins to SPI finishes.

Design and Layout

Take specifications, use of drawing tools, make design and layouts (program and operate CAD/CAM machines if applicable).

Heating Treating

100

Miscellaneous Machines

800

Machine repair and other such work as may be considered adequate to complete the experience necessary to attain the skills and versatility required of journeyperson.

EDM

200

Set up and operation of Wire EDM, fabrication of electrodes 3R systems.

CNC Mills

250

Proper set up of machines, selection of cutting tools and inputting tool length of sets, use of correct programming methods and sequences, use of desktop computer to write programs, machine maintenance, safety.

Repair Welding – TIG

100

Safety, proper set up and selection of gas pressures tungsten diameters and filler materials, matching filler materials to steel being welded for hardness and machinability.

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