TIRE REPAIRER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Repairs damaged tires of automobiles, buses, trucks, and other automotive vehicles: Raises vehicle, using hydraulic jack, and unbolts wheel, using lug wrench. Removes wheel from vehicle by hand or, when repairing giant tires of heavy equipment, 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 emerging from puncture. Seals puncture in tubeless tire by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plug into puncture, using handtools. Separates tubed tire from wheel, using rubber mallet and metal bar or mechanical tire changer. Removes inner tube from tire and inspects tire casing for defects, such as holes and tears. Glues boot (tire patch) over rupture in tire casing, using rubber cement. Inflates inner tube and immerses it in water to locate leak. Buffs defective area of inner tube, using scraper, and patches tube with adhesive rubber patch or seals rubber patch to tube, using hot vulcanizing plate. Reassembles tire onto wheel, and places wheel on balancing machine to determine counterweights required to balance wheel. Hammers required counterweights onto rim of wheel. Cleans sides of white wall tires and remounts wheel onto vehicle. Responds to emergency calls to make repairs or replacements of damaged tires at customer's home or on road. May be designated according to specialty as Giant-Tire Repairer (automotive ser.); Tire Changer (automotive ser.); Tire Changer, Aircraft (air trans.); Tire Changer, Road Service (automotive ser.). May rotate tires to different positions on vehicle, using tire changing machine, handtools, and tire balancing machine. (references)
	Repairs defects in cured tires as identified by TIRE INSPECTOR (rubber tire), using handtools and rubber patch: Examines and probes tire with awl to determine extent of defect. Buffs blemishes from tire, using portable buffer. Cuts out rubber around cracks and buffs area to prepare it for patching. Cements gum rubber patch into cutout to build up defective area. Rolls down patch with hand stitcher and punctures air pockets in patch to remove trapped air. Buffs and trims excess patch rubber from tire. Replaces treads by cutting defective tread from plies, buffing ply surface, and cementing new tread onto plies. May tend vulcanizing machine to cure patch on tire for specified time. May replace imprinting plates on electronic replating machine to change or clarify markings on tire. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: TIRE REPAIRER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-p-r-r-r-r-t"
	-4 letters: parterre, rareripe, repairer, repartee, repeater, rerepeat.
	-5 letters: partier, pearter, peatier, prairie, retiree, retirer, taperer, tarrier, tearier, terrier.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-p-r-r-r-r-t"
	+4 letters: partridgeberries.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.