RATE A
1. *Marking out
*‘Marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of the centres and working lines of articles and/or material.
RATE AA
| 1. | Operating press-brake (including setting up) (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | *Marking out of sheetmetal not exceeding 4 mm thickness. |
*For the purposes of the above ‘marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of centres and working lines on material preparatory to processing.
RATE B
| 1. | Wire drawing, including supervisory work, and setting up of wire drawing machine (n.e.s.). |
RATE D
| 1. | Brazing of leads and/or located parts. |
| 2. | Changing of self-locating dies on die-casting machines. |
| 3. | Changing of self-locating dies on manually-operated presses. |
| 4. | Cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing and/or punching to jigs and/or length gauges and/or stops and/or templets, excluding oxyacetylene cutting (n.e.s.). |
| 5. | Drilling and/or reaming and/or tapping and/or spotfacing on radial drilling machine to jigs and/or fixtures and/or marks and/or pops (nes), including sharpening of drills. |
| 6. | Machining on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops (excluding requirement of stops for parting off) where the work cycle is manually operated (excluding setting up but including checking with fixed gauges) (including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling – excluding machine toolsetting up and/or tool-setting and/or adjusting). |
| 7. | *Marking off material (n.e.s.). |
*‘Marking off’ means marking off material to given lengths for cutting off purposes only, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material.
| 8. | Operating turret punching machine to stops and/or templets (n.e.s.) (including setting). |
| 9. | Preliminary welding for positioning only of jobs prior to welding, riveting or bolting up (runs of not more than 40 mm in length). |
| 10. | Repetition operating power-driven press-brake to stops and/or jigs, excluding setting up. |
| 11. | Repetition drill sharpening by machine (other than in toolroom). |
| 12. | Setting of stops on guillotine for cutting insulation only. |
| 13. | Setting of stops on manually-operated guillotine. |
| 14. | Setting of stops on tube and/or pipe bending machine. |
RATE DD
| 1. | Operating press-brake (n.e.s.) to stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges involving the use of sheetmetal not exceeding 4 mm thickness, excluding setting up. |
RATE DDD
| 1. | Repetition checking of parts and/or components and/or sub-assemblies by means of comparators and/or samples (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Repetition drilling and/or tapping on radial drill to jigs with drills not exceeding 40 mm diameter, excluding setting up. |
RATE E
| 1. | Repetition operation of and/or attending machines adapted for semi-automatic operations (including programme controlled copying lathes) where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops, so that manual operations are limited to loading, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools) before and after the power-driven cycle takes over, stopping the machine and unloading (excluding setting up). |
| 2. | Rough grinding to marks. |
| 3. | Repetition assembling of self-locating pre-manufactured parts to samples and/or pictorial sketches, where no fitting or adjustment is required. |
RATE F
| 1. | Operating power-driven guillotine to stops, involving the use of sheetmetal not exceeding 4 mm thickness, excluding setting up. |
| 2. | Repetition batch checking of parts and/or components and/or subassemblies by means of fixed gauges and/or checking fixtures. |
| 3. | Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machines where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops (excluding setting up). |
‘Semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where the manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools) before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.
| 4. | Repetition production machining of bar and/or tube on capstan lathes to stops, where the work piece is held by devices not necessitating any centralising or trueing (excluding setting up). (This operation is limited to a machine not exceeding a 52 mm nominal bore diameter.) |
RATE G
| 1. | Assembling in jigs and/or fixtures of self-locating parts, pre-manufactured and taken from stock, where no fitting or adjustment, or reference is required to sketches and/or drawings, but including deburring. |
| 2. | Affixing slings under supervision of Rate A to D employee. |
| 3. | Attending die-casting machine. |
| 4. | Bending to stops of pipes and/or tubes in manually and/or power-operated tube and/or pipe bending machine. |
| 5. | Cutting of non-metallic gaskets by hand. |
| 6. | Cutting up insulating material to stops and/or templets by guillotine. |
| 7. | Hand tapping not exceeding 12 mm diameter (excluding machine shop work). |
| 8. | Hydraulic testing and/or testing by air (excluding setting up of testing equipment). |
| 9. | Operating press-brake to stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges where the stroke is not controlled, involving the use of sheetmetal not exceeding 4 mm thickness, excluding setting up. |
| 10. | Operating single-purpose machine other than machine tools. |
| 11. | Repetition drilling to dimples and/or jigs and/or fixtures and/or stops (excluding radial drill), including counter-sinking and/or reaming by non-adjustable reamers. |
| 12. | Repetition drilling to pops (excluding structural metal work and radial drilling machine). |
| 13. | Repetition machine punching to jigs and/or stops, including the positioning of self-locating stops and/or gauges. |
| 14. | Repetition marking to jigs and/or length gauges and/or templets. |
RATE H
1. Applying transfers.
2. Attending oven.
3. Baling and cutting of scrap.
4. Flow coat painting.
5. Packing of manufactured articles for dispatch and/or sale.
