BALANCING-MACHINE OPERATOR

  

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BALANCING-MACHINE OPERATOR

Specialty Definition: BALANCING-MACHINE OPERATOR

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Operates dynamic balance machine to locate points of imbalance on parts, such as spindles, impeller wheels, armatures, rotors, and steam engine flywheels, and balances parts by removing excess metal, using handtools and power tools, or adding metal, using soldering and welding equipment: Signals crane operator to position workpiece on machine pedestals. Slides drive belt over shaft of workpiece or moves drive wheel against workpiece to connect power source that rotates workpiece. Starts machine to rotate workpiece at specified speed. Moves controls of machine to locate points of imbalance indicated by light beam from strobe lamp on identification marks of workpiece, position of wave crest of trace pattern on oscilloscope screen, or readings on wattmeter and protractor dial. Computes amount of weight to be added to or removed from workpiece, or changes size and location of test weight until zero reading is indicated on ammeter. Drills, grinds, chips, or files metal from heavy side, or welds, solders, or rivets metal pieces to light side to correct imbalance, using power drills and grinders, hand file, and soldering and welding equipment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BALANCING-MACHINE OPERATOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 4C 41 4E 43 49 4E 47 2D 4D 41 43 48 49 4E 45      4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#45 &#77 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 004C 0041 004E 0043 0049 004E 0047 002D 004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045      004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363546354837434841154735374243483924950395235544952

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