RATE AA
*For the purposes of the above, ‘marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of the centres and working lines of articles and/or material preparatory to machining and/or processing.
RATE B
| 1. | Final knocking out of dents and/or final straightening by use of hammer, spoon, dolly or wrench bar (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Preparing completed doors and/or door frames and/or window surrounds for non-standard fittings. |
| 3. | Repairing and/or altering and/or adjusting and/or erecting on site or building of doors and/or door frames, window surrounds and curtain walling (n.e.s.) (outwork only). |
RATE C
| 1. | Arc and/or gas welding by hand. |
| 2. | Operating power-driven guillotine (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Operating press-brake (n.e.s.). |
| 4. | Roller bending and/or forming, other than repetition roller bending and/or forming (n.e.s.). |
RATE D
| 2. | Automatic welding where the welding head is automatically fed and speed of weld mechanically controlled. |
| 3. | Fitting of glazing beads and all operations incidental thereto, including marking for mitreing and pop marking prior to drilling. |
*‘Marking off’ means marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only rule and/or tape measure and marking material.
| 5. | Operating power-driven folding machine (n.e.s.), including setting-up. |
| 6. | Operating turret punching machine to stops and/or templets (n.e.s.) (including setting). |
| 7. | Press operating (n.e.s.), excluding setting. |
| 8. | 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.). |
RATE DD
| 1. | Gas brazing on hot water geysers of copper components in fixtures, or so formed as to obviate the need for fixtures, using fluxless brazing rods. |
| 2. | Operating press brake to stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges where the stroke is controlled (excluding setting up). |
| 3. | Positioning and bolting down of die sets in pre-located positive guides on presses of capacity up to 50 tons, prior to setting by a Rate C setter. |
| 4. | 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). |
RATE E
| 1. | Metal spraying for anti-corrosive purposes under effective supervision. |
RATE F
| 1. | Operating manually-operated folding machine and/or hand brake and/or hand folder and/or finger bending brake to marks (excluding setting up). |
| 2. | Operating power-driven folding machine to stops and/or jigs and/or fixtures (excluding setting up). |
| 3. | Operating power-driven guillotine to stops (excluding setting up). |
| 4. | 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). |
For the purposes of the above, ‘semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and 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 before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.
| 5. | Repetition production machining of bar and/or tube on capstan lathes to stops where the work 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. | Affixing and/or positioning of ventilators into industrial windows and/or of windows into surrounds and/or screwing and/or riveting, including clamping and/or positioning under effective supervision, excluding arc welding. |
| 2. | Assembling of pre-manufactured components from stock requiring no fitting and/or adjusting, but including deburring. |
| 3. | Attaching fittings on prepared door frames and/or window surrounds. |
| 4. | 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. |
| 5. | Bending to stops and/or marks of piping and/or tubing marked to size by manual pipe and/or tube bending machine. |
| 6. | Bending to stops of piping and/or tubing by power-operated pipe and/or tube bending machine, excluding setting. |
| 7. | Leak-testing of finished products, other than by pressure testing. |
| 8. | Loading of rolled sheet coils onto uncoiler and setting of uncoiler release under supervision of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 9. | Operating manually operated folding machine and/or hand brake and/or hand folder and/or finger bending brake to stops and/or jigs and/or fixtures, excluding setting up. |
| 10. | Operating press-brake to stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges where the stroke is not controlled (excluding setting up). |
| 11. | Operating tube and/or rod and/or wire straightening machine. |
| 12. | Operating wire fed stitching machine. |
| 13. | Random drilling where the location of the hole is not critical or is immaterial (in the manufacture of tanks and/or reservoirs only). |
| 14. | Repetition application of insulating materials, including cutting and/or marking to templets under effective supervision. |
| 15. | Repetition bending and/or forming by machine to jigs and/or dies and/or stops and/or length gauges (excluding press-brake and excluding setting up). |
| 16. | Repetition butt and/or spot and/or flash and/or seam and/or projection and/or resistance and/or percussion welding by machine. |
| 17. | Repetition coiling of tubes under the instruction of a Rate AA to D employee. |
| 18. | Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to stops and/or and or jigs and/or length gauges and/or fixtures and/or marks (excluding power-driven guillotines and excluding setting up). |
| 19. | Repetition drilling to jigs and/or prelocated parts and/or templets and/or pops and/or fixtures and/or marks (excluding radial drilling machines). |
| 20. | Repetition hot and/or cold blanking and/or piercing by press, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops. |
| 21. | Repetition machine punching and/or slotting and/or notching to jigs and/or guides and/or stops. |
| 22. | Repetition marking to templets and/or jigs. |
| 23. | Repetition operating nibbling machine and/or nibbling shears to jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or marks in sheet of 4 mm and thinner. |
| 24. | Repetition popmarking to jigs and/or templets. |
| 25. | Repetition reaming with non-adjustable reamers. |
| 26. | Repetition roller bending and/or roller forming and/or re-rolling. |
| 27. | Repetition rolling and/or corrugating and/or forming of tank bodies. |
| 28. | Repetition soft soldering and/or sweating. |
| 29. | Repetition spinning, using formers, including the use of fixed gauges but excluding setting. |
| 30. | Repetitive countersinking to stops. |
| 31. | Repetitive threading and/or tapping. |
| 32. | Rough straightening of components and/or materials using tinman’s hammer and/or mallet and/or pliers only. |
| 33. | 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 by grinding and/or by portable power tools. |
| 4. | Hand trueing of tubular frames to jigs and/or and/or fixtures. |
| 5 . | Lifting and/or placing of stops into position where positive location is provided (excluding setting of stops). |
| 6. | Operating baling press. |
| 7. | Operating tumbling barrel. |
| 8. | Re-threading and/or re-tapping. |
| 9. | Sand and/or shot blasting. |
| 10. | Scrap cutting and/or baling. |
| 11. | Preparing work for painting and/or soldering and/or brazing. |
