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O*NET detailed work activityReplace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts
Stays humanHands-on work
30 jobs39 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 Repair tools or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 39 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.
- Insert new or repaired tumblers into locks to change combinations.
- Replace defective parts of machine, or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
- Repair and replace damaged or worn parts.
- Repair or replace broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools.
- Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
- Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline or oil tanks, starters, or mufflers.
- Repair or replace defective parts such as magnetos, water pumps, gears, pistons, and carburetors, using hand tools.
- Replace worn and defective parts such as switches, bearings, transmissions, belts, gears, circuit boards, or defective wiring.
- Repair or replace defective parts, using hand tools, milling and woodworking machines, lathes, welding equipment, grinders, or saws.
- Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.
- Repair, adjust, or replace electrical or mechanical components or parts, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering or welding equipment.
- Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, or generators.
- Replace or repair worn, defective, or damaged components, using hand tools, gauges, and testing equipment.
- Repair or replace broken or malfunctioning components of machinery or equipment.
- Replace parts, such as gears, magneto points, piston rings, or spark plugs, and reassemble engines.
- Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.
- Replace or adjust motorized or manual window-raising mechanisms.
- Repair or replace defective or worn parts such as bearings, pistons, and gears, using hand tools, torque wrenches, power tools, and welding equipment.
- Repair, replace, or adjust defective fuel injectors, carburetor parts, and gasoline filters.
- Repair or adjust equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
- Repair or replace defective equipment, components, or wiring.
- Remove cylinder heads and grind valves to scrape off carbon and replace defective valves, pistons, cylinders, or rings, using hand and power tools.
- Overhaul or replace carburetors, blowers, generators, distributors, starters, and pumps.
- Repair or replace parts such as pistons, rods, gears, valves, and bearings.
- Replace motors.
- Replace defective wiring, broken lenses, or burned-out light bulbs.
- Replace malfunctioning parts, such as worn magnetic heads on automatic teller machine (ATM) card readers.
- Replace existing antennas with new antennas as directed.
- Repair or rebuild transmissions.
- Replace or repair metal, wood, leather, glass, or other lining in machines, or in equipment compartments or containers.
- Recondition and replace parts, pistons, bearings, gears, and valves.
- Remove and replace defective parts such as coil leads, carbon brushes, and wires, using soldering equipment.
- Dismantle meters, and replace or adjust defective parts such as cases, shafts, gears, disks, and recording mechanisms, using soldering irons and hand tools.
- Replace defective parts, such as bellows, range springs, and toggle switches, and reassemble units according to blueprints, using cam presses and hand tools.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions.
- Install new or replace broken meters.
- Repair or remove and replace system components.
- Replace, true, and sharpen blades, drills, and plates.