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O*NET detailed work activitySmooth surfaces of objects or equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
7 jobs11 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 Smooth surfaces of objects or equipment, 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, 11 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- File, grind, sand, and smooth filled or repaired surfaces, using power tools and hand tools.
- Release air bubbles and smooth seams, using rollers.
- Smooth surfaces of finished pieces, using rubber scrapers and wet sponges.
- Smooth seams with heated irons, flat bones, or rubbing sticks.
- Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers.
- Prepare rims and wheel drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding, or sandblasting.
- Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
- Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing tools.
- Reface, ream, and polish commutators and machine parts to specified tolerances, using machine tools.