Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics

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Job Description

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Key Tasks

• Record repairs made, time spent, and parts used.
• Test and inspect engines to determine malfunctions, to locate missing and broken parts, and to verify repairs, using diagnostic instruments.
• Dismantle engines, using hand tools, and examine parts for defects.
• Repair and maintain gasoline engines used to power equipment such as portable saws, lawn mowers, generators, and compressors.
• Adjust points, valves, carburetors, distributors, and spark plug gaps, using feeler gauges.
• Repair or replace defective parts such as magnetos, water pumps, gears, pistons, and carburetors, using hand tools.
• Perform routine maintenance such as cleaning and oiling parts, honing cylinders, and tuning ignition systems.
• Reassemble engines after repair or maintenance work is complete.
• Replace motors.
• Obtain problem descriptions from customers, and prepare cost estimates for repairs.
• Show customers how to maintain equipment.
• Remove engines from equipment, and position and bolt engines to repair stands.
• Sell parts and equipment.
• Grind, ream, rebore, and re-tap parts to obtain specified clearances, using grinders, lathes, taps, reamers, boring machines, and micrometers.

O*NET Information

• SOC Code: 49-3053.00
• Title: Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics

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