RATE A
1. Assembling and/or wiring of signs (n.e.s.).
RATE AA
1. Bending glass tubes.
2. Layout work.
Learnership in respect of the above AA operations:
First eight months of experience....................................
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Rate D
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Second eight months of experience...............................
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Rate C
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Third eight months of experience..................................
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Rate B
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Thereafter.....................................................................
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Rate AA
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RATE C
| 1. | Operating power-driven press-brake, including setting (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Roller bending and/or forming, other than repetition roller bending and/or forming. |
| 3. | Setting of dies and/or fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops and/or trips on production machines, excluding rotary and/or reciprocating machines, but including drilling machines. |
| 4. | Setting and gas setting of electric lamp making machines, including running adjustments during the manufacturing process. |
| 5. | Setting of trips and/or stops on coil forming machines for ballasts and/or chokes and/or sodium transformers. |
RATE D
| 2. | Bending of metal tubes and/or sections in manually operated machine to sketch. |
| 3. | Marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material. |
| 4. | Welding in fixtures and/or of parts so formed and/or located as to obviate the need for a fixture. |
RATE DD
| 1. | Bending of glass tubes to jigs and/or moulds. |
| 3. | Tracing in the layout department. |
RATE DDD
1. Routine electrical testing up to 380 volts and 50 amps.
RATE G
| 1. | All operations in the making of cable forms for light fittings and/or signs from prepared running out lists and/or templets. |
| 2. | Assembling and/or soldering of premanufactured components into lighting units and/or signs (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Assembling and/or soldering of premanufactured components requiring no fitting or adjustment but including deburring (n.e.s.). |
| 4. | Assembly of caps to globes/tubes and feeding onto automatic capping machine. |
| 5. | Attending automatic assembly machines. |
| 6. | Bending and/or forming by machine to dies and/or jigs and/or length gauges and/or marks and/or stops, excluding press-brake. |
| 7. | Broaching, by press, using fixed broaches, of ballasts and/or chokes and/or sodium transformer cores. |
| 8. | Circular cutting and/or flanging and/or slitting by machine. |
| 9. | Component assembly of electric filament and discharge lamps by hand. |
| 10. | Connecting preformed and/or sealed and/or prepared wires to predetermined points and/or connections (n.e.s.). |
| 11. | Cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to marks and/or stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges. |
| 12. | Cutting glass tubes to length. |
| 13. | Cutting up insulating material to stops. |
| 14. | Evacuating and/or filling glass tubes. |
| 15. | Feeding and/or attending automatic sealing and/or capping machine. |
| 16. | Finding and preparing of ballast coil ends. |
| 17. | Fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing and/or notching and/or power pressing where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies and/or to stops (excluding setting up). |
| 18. | Fusing by hand of electrodes to glass tubes (n.e.s.). |
| 19. | Inspection and testing of electric lamps (n.e.s.). |
| 20. | Repetition clamping and/or fusing and/or welding of cathodes to electrodes by automatic machine. |
| 21. | Repetition fluorescent and/or illumination testing. |
| 22. | Repetition ohm testing to pre-set setting on ohmmeters. |
| 23. | Repetition operation of a drilling machine. |
| 24. | Repetition operation of power-driven press-brake to jigs and/or stops for purpose of fluorescent lighting fittings and/or fluorescent signs produced on a quantity basis where the thickness of the material does not exceed 1,6 mm. |
| 25. | Repetition production winding of ballasts and/or chokes and/or sodium transformer coils with wire on formers and/or spools by machine to a predetermined numbers of turns. |
| 26. | Repetition punching to gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or dies and/or marks. |
| 27. | Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine. |
| 28. | Repetition tracing to jigs and/or layouts and/or templets, excluding layout department. |
| 29. | Routine setting of air gaps in ballasts to predetermined limits by means of comparators and/or deviation meters and/or oscilloscopes where the adjustments of instruments are made by a Rate A employee. |
| 30. | Sealing by hand of ballast containers after filling with compound. |
| 32. | Soft soldering and/or sweating by hand. |
| 33. | Visual inspection of electric lamps including resoldering of cap connections and removal of flash. |
| 34. | Wiring of signs and/or fittings to instructions and where the course of wires is marked by cleats and/or lines and/or saddles and/or fixtures and/or where no wiring diagram is used during manufacture. |
RATE H
| 1. | Assembling connector blocks. |
| 2. | Cutting wiring connection to set lengths and fitting eyelets. |
| 3. | Dipping and/or impregnating in insulating medium and/or enamel and/or paint and/or varnish. |
| 4. | Dismantling of old signs (in shop). |
| 5. | Fixing ballasts to wiring channels. |
| 6. | Mixing and milling of phosphor for coating glass tubes under instruction of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 7. | Mixing and milling paste for caps. |
| 8. | Packing of manufactured articles for despatch or sale. |
| 9. | Preparing and/or stapling boxes for packing of manufactured articles. |
| 10. | Preparing and/or spraying of sign boxes for reception of sign faces. |
| 11. | Washing and/or rinsing and/or drying and/or coating and/or baking of glass tubes by automatic or semi-automatic processes. |
