Career choice description- Part 1 What do boilermakers do? Boilermakers are specialised artisans who: Mark off and fabricate structural steel and other metal stock to make or repair metal products and structures including boilers and pressure vessels. What duties and tasks does a boilemaker perform? -Developd layout and plans sequence of operations for fabricating and assembling structural metal products, applying trigonomety and knowledge of metal. -Locates and marks bending and cutting lines onto work piece, allowing for stock thickness and machine and welding shrinkage. -Hammers, chips, and grinds work piece to cut, bend and straighten metal. -Verifies conformance of work piece to specifications, using square, ruler, and measuring tape. -Reheats work pieces to render them malleable, using hand torch or furnace. -Position, aligns, fits and welds together parts, using jigs, welding torch and hand tools. -Sets up and operates fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, and drill presses. -Sets up and operates machine tools associated with fabricating shops, such as radial drill, end mill, and edge planer. -Designs and constructs templates and fixtures, using hand tools
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