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Career Details :: Tire Repairers and Changers
Description
Repair and replace tires.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Separates tubed tire from wheel, using rubber mallet and metal bar or mechanical tire changer.
- Buffs defective area of inner tube, using scraper.
- Remounts wheel onto vehicle.
- Patches tube with adhesive rubber patch or seals rubber patch to tube, using hot vulcanizing plate.
- Reassembles tire onto wheel.
- Raises vehicle, using hydraulic jack.
- Glues boot (tire patch) over rupture in tire casing, using rubber cement.
- Removes inner tube from tire and inspects tire casing for defects, such as holes and tears.
- Seals puncture in tubeless tire by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plug into puncture, using hand tools.
- Places wheel on balancing machine to determine counterweights required to balance wheel.
- Removes wheel from vehicle by hand or by use of power hoist.
- Locates puncture in tubeless tire by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tire in water bath and observing air bubbles.
- Rotates tires to different positions on vehicle, using hand tools.
- Inflates inner tube and immerses it in water to locate leak.
- Cleans sides of whitewall tires.
- Hammers required counterweights onto rim of wheel.
- Unbolts wheel, using lug wrench.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Standing
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
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