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O*NET detailed work activityFill cracks, imperfections, or holes in products or workpieces
Stays humanHands-on work
8 jobs8 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 Apply materials to fill gaps or imperfections, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Fill cuts and holes in tires, using hot rubber.
- Fill and smooth cracks or depressions, remove marks and imperfections, and repair broken parts, using plastic or wood putty, glue, nails, or screws.
- Smooth and clean inner surfaces of molds, using brushes, scrapers, air hoses, or grinding wheels, and fill imperfections with refractory material.
- Fill chipped or low spots in surfaces of devices, using acrylic resins.
- Conceal blemishes in workpieces, such as nicks and dents, using fillers such as putty.
- Patch broken edges or fractures, using clay or plaster.
- Fill etched characters with opaque paste to improve readability.