Manufacture and fabrication involves the use of metal 4 mm and thinner and may include integral light metal sections of material not exceeding 7 mm thickness.
RATE A
The Rate A operations of Schedule G of this Agreement shall apply. (No person other than a journeyman or apprentice may be employed on work classified as Rate A without the prior permission of the Council.)
RATE AA
| 1. | Marking out with tape and/or rule of centres and working lines of articles and/or material preparatory to machining and/or processing. |
| 2. | Setting out of stock on the floor or the bench to sketch and/or drawings and/or dimensions. |
| 3. | Assembly of pre-manufactured components from stock (including adjustment). |
RATE C
| 1. | Operating power-driven guillotine (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Operating press-brake (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Operating roller-bending and/or forming equipment (n.e.s.). |
| 4. | Setting (n.e.s.) of dies and/or fixtures and/or stops and/or jigs and/or guides and/or trips on production machines. |
RATE D
| 1. | Assembling of pre-manufactured components from stock where no fitting is required (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Automatic welding where the welding head is automatically fed and speed of weld mechanically controlled. |
| 3. | Marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only rule and/or tape measure and marking material. |
| 4. | Operating power-driven folding machine (n.e.s.), including setting up. |
| 5. | Press operating (n.e.s.), excluding setting up. |
| 6. | Welding and/or brazing, including hard and/or silver soldering, of parts located in jigs and/or parts so located as to obviate the need for a jig (n.e.s.). |
| 7. | Operating a reciprocating and/or circular power saw, including marking off with a rule and/or tape (including setting of stops) (n.e.s.). |
| 8. | Cropping and/or shearing and/or punching to stops and/or templets and/or length gauges and/or marks (including the changing of composite dies). |
| 9. | Operating single-head gas profile machine and/or single and/or multi-head straight line cutting machine, including setting up. |
| 10. | Operating repetitive and/or continuous automatic welding machines, including adjustment due to voltage variation. |
| 11. | Operating continuous semi-automatic gas shielded and/or flux cored wire arc welding machine, excluding setting up. |
| 12. | Manufacture of brackets where used in piping and/or duct erection using angle iron up to 75x75x6 mm. |
| 13. | Manufacture of flanges where used in ducting systems and/or equipment. |
| 14. | Operating press-brake (n.e.s.) to stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges where the stroke is controlled by the operator, excluding setting up. |
RATE DD
| 1. | Welding and/or brazing to fixtures or parts so located as to obviate the need for a fixture (weld length not to exceed 55 mm and material thickness not to exceed 2,5 mm). |
| 2. | Repetitive soft soldering and/or sweating. |
RATE E
| 1. | Operating automatic duct making machines, excluding setting up. (Setting up to be carried out or supervised by a Rate A employee.) |
RATE F
| 1. | Operating reciprocating and/or circular power saw to stops and/or jigs and/or marks, excluding setting up. |
| 2. | Operating power-driven folding machine to stops and/or jigs, and/or fixtures and/or marks, excluding setting up. |
| 3. | Operating power-driven guillotine to stops, and/or marks, excluding setting up. |
| 4. | Repetition production screwing of bar and/or tube on screwing machines to stops where the work is eld by devices not necessitating centralising or trueing (excluding setting up). (This operation is limited to a machine not exceeding a 52 mm nominal bore diameter.) |
| 5. | Operating manually operated rollers-the setting and forming in the manufacture of round ducting, bends, and spigots, including the adjustment of the rollers. |
| 6. | Insulating of ducting in general-using pinspotter, spray-gun, tape measure or any other tools used in the insulation of ducting. |
| 7. | Drilling by hand of holes in flanges to be fitted to ducts by rivets, pop rivets or tinman’s rivets or other means of fastening, setting out holes by means of fixed gauges. |
| 8. | Assembling of pre-manufactured components from stock requiring no fitting and/or adjusting, but including drilling of holes with hand drill up to 6 mm and/or the use of hammer in knocking over the flange, i.e. Pittsburgh lock or spigot. |
RATE G
| 1. | Beading and/or seaming and/or grooving and/or trimming and/or curling and/or wiring and/or dishing and/or flanging and/or locking double side top and bottom. |
| 2. | Leak-testing of finished products, other than by pressure testing. |
| 3. | Loading of rolled sheet coils onto uncoiler and setting of uncoiler release under supervision of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 4. | Operating manually operated folding machine and/or brake and/or hand folder and/or finger bending brake to stops and/or jigs and/or fixtures and/or marks, excluding setting up. |
| 5. | Operating press-brake and/or guillotine to stops and/or jigs and/or length guages where the stroke is not controlled by the operator. |
| 6. | Riveting (10 mm diameter or less). |
| 7. | Using lock forming machine and/or seaming machine in any of the operations used in the manufacture of rectangular or round duct, including “S” and drive cleats. |
| 8. | Random drilling with a hand-held drill where the location of the holes is not critical. |
| 9. | Repetition application of insulating materials, including cutting and/or marking to templets under supervision of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 10. | Repetition bending and/or forming by machine to jigs and/or dies and/or stops and/or length gauges and/or marks (excluding press-brake and excluding setting up). |
| 11. | Repetition butt and/or spot and/or flash and/or projection and/or resistance and/or percussion welding by machine. |
| 12. | Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to stops and/or templets and/or jigs and/or length gauges and/or fixtures and/or marks (excluding power-driven guillotines and excluding setting up). |
| 13. | Repetition drilling to jigs and/or prelocated parts and/or templets and/or pops and/or fixtures and/or marks (excluding radial drilling machines). |
| 14. | Repetition machine punching and/or slotting and/or notching to jigs and/or guides and/or stops and/or marks. (Material not to exceed 7 mm in thickness.) |
| 15. | Repetition marking to templets and/or jigs. |
| 16. | Repetition operating nibbling machines and/or shears to jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or marks in sheets of 4 mm and thinner, including repetition marking to templets and/or jigs. |
| 17. | Repetition pop marking to jigs and/or templets. |
| 18. | Repetition reaming with non-adjustable reamers. |
| 19. | Repetition roller bending and/or roller forming and/or re-rolling. |
| 20. | Repetitive counter-sinking to stops. |
| 21. | Repetitive threading and/or tapping. |
| 22. | Rough straightening of components and/or materials using tinman’s hammer and/or mallet and/or pliers only. |
| 23. | Screwing on and/or riveting and/or clipping of assembled louvre stiles into metal frames. |
RATE H
| 1. | Application of adhesive and/or anti-corrosive and/or protective coatings. |
| 2. | Cutting timber by hand and/or machine for crating purposes and/or crate making. |
| 3. | Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or grinding by portable power tools. |
| 4. | Re-threading and/or re-tapping. |
| 5. | Sand and/or shot blasting. |
| 6. | Scrap cutting and/or baling. |
| 7. | Preparing work for painting and/or soldering and/or brazing. |
