PARTS INSPECTOR

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Inspects materials and products, such as sheet stock, auto body or engine parts, dental instruments, machine shop parts, and metal castings, for conformance to specifications, using fixed or preset measuring instruments: Examines material or product for surface defects, such as cracks, pits, and incomplete welds. Compares product with parts list or sample model to ensure completion of assembly. Verifies specified dimensions of product or material, using inspection equipment, such as fixed gauges, templates, and preset micrometer, vernier height gauges, and dial indicator. Rejects defective parts, and marks type of defect on part, container of parts, or inspection tag. May test parts for hardness, using hardness tester [HARDNESS INSPECTOR (heat treating) 504.387-010]. May test products for structural defects, such as leaks and internal cracks, using water pressure tests [HYDRO-PNEUMATIC TESTER (any industry) 862.687-018]. May test mechanisms for clearance and freedom of movement. May be designated Inspector, Filters (auto. mfg.). (references)
	Inspects furniture parts for defects and repairs defective parts: Examines furniture parts, such as table and cabinet tops, end panels, and furniture legs for knot holes, cracks, splits, scratches, raised veneer, and defective sanding. Selects filler to match color, type, and species of stock piece, and fills cracks, holes, and dents with filler, using putty knife. Places electric iron on repaired wood defect to dry filler. Smooths rough places with sandpaper and hand plane. Verifies pieces inspected against cutting orders. Orders replacement parts, indicating number of pieces needed, pattern number, and dimensions. May cut out defects, using portable electric saw or knife, and glue patch for patch strips in cutout area. May fill splits with glue and clamp stock for specified time to allow glue to dry. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: PARTS INSPECTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: constipates, introspects, pinspotters, protreptics, retractions, tetrasporic, transcripts, triceratops.
	-4 letters: carnotites, carrotiest, cartoppers, constipate, contraries, copartners, cornetists, inspectors, intercrops, intercross, introspect, patronises, pinspotter, postarrest, postscript, prescripts, pretorians, prostrates, protistans, protreptic, reappoints, restraints, retraction, scrappiest, serrations, spaceports, spectators, stationers, stroppiest, traitoress, transcript, transistor, transpires, transports, trisectors.
	-5 letters: ancestors, anoretics, antipopes, antipress, apprisers, aspersion, assertion, atropines.
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.