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O*NET detailed work activityClean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order
Stays humanHands-on work
29 jobs42 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 42 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Check and maintain diving equipment, such as helmets, masks, air tanks, harnesses, or gauges.
- Clean and lubricate parts.
- Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.
- Clean and lubricate cameras and polish camera lenses, using cleaning materials and work aids.
- Perform routine maintenance such as cleaning and oiling parts, honing cylinders, and tuning ignition systems.
- Clean, lubricate, or adjust parts, equipment, or machinery.
- Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
- Clean parts by spraying them with grease solvent or immersing them in tanks of solvent.
- Clean, lubricate, and perform other routine maintenance work on equipment and vehicles.
- Scrape and clean units or parts, using cleaning solvents and equipment such as buffing wheels.
- Clean machines and machine parts, using cleaning solvents, cloths, air guns, hoses, vacuums, or other equipment.
- Service and maintain aircraft and related apparatus by performing activities such as flushing crankcases, cleaning screens, and or moving parts.
- Clean and oil machine parts.
- Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
- Chip slag from linings of ladles or remove linings when beyond repair, using hammers and chisels.
- Clean and reinstall parts.
- Clean, oil, or adjust mechanical parts to maintain machines' operating efficiency and to prevent breakdowns.
- Install, inspect, clean, or repair piping or valves.
- Clean or lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, or other parts of machinery.
- Remove hardened material from machines or machine parts, using abrasives, power and hand tools, jackhammers, sledgehammers, or other equipment.
- Clean and dress machine surfaces and component parts.
- Perform scheduled maintenance, and clean units and components.
- Clean, lubricate, and touch up minor defects on newly installed or repaired appliances.
- Repair, replace, and clean equipment and components such as circuit breakers, brushes, and commutators.
- Clean sides of whitewall tires.
- Clean, refuel, and change oil in line service aircraft.
- Clean lenses of lamps with cloths and solvents.
- Prepare, install, maintain, or repair equipment used for hydrologic study, such as water level recorders, stream flow gauges, and water analyzers.
- Clean switches and replace contact points, using vacuum hoses, solvents, and hand tools.
- Steam-clean polishing and buffing wheels to remove abrasives and bonding materials, and spray, brush, or recoat surfaces as necessary.
- Clean engines, sediment bulk and screens, and carburetors, adjusting carburetor float levels.
- Clean internal compartments and moving parts, using rags and cleaning compounds.
- Maintain or repair lab equipment.
- Clean door closer parts, using caustic soda, rotary brushes, or grinding wheels.
- Prepare work stations for use by mechanics and repairers.
- Clean, strip, prime, and sand structural surfaces and materials to prepare them for bonding.
- Clean plant growth, scale, paint, soil, or rust from meter housings, using wire brushes, scrapers, buffers, sandblasters, or cleaning compounds.
- Clean cells, cell assemblies, glassware, leads, electrical connections, and battery poles, using scrapers, steam, water, emery cloths, power grinders, or acid.
- Wash metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solutions to remove lacquer and tarnish.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Reassemble units after repairs are made, making adjustments and cleaning and lubricating parts as needed.
- Clean or lubricate vehicles, machinery, equipment, instruments, tools, work areas, and other objects, using hand tools, power tools, and cleaning equipment.
- Replace and clean electrical or electronic components.