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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Sets up and operates grinding machines, such as surface and universal, carbide, drill, and tool-and-cutter grinders, to sharpen cutting tools to specifications, using blueprints, job orders, and knowledge of abrasives and metal properties: Reviews blueprints and job orders to plan production sequence. Selects grinding wheel of shape and grade and attaches to spindle, using wrenches. Positions and secures cutting tool on machine table, using magnetic chuck or holding fixture, or mounts tool on arbor and clamps between centers. Turns handwheels to position table or spindle to obtain specified taper and bevel on edges of cutting tools. Moves controls to set cutting tool rotation speed, feed rate, and grinding wheel rotation speed. Starts machine and turns wheel or engages feed to move workpiece to grinding wheel. Measures sharpened cutting tools to verify conformance to specifications, using fixed gauges, micrometers, calipers, optical comparators, and surface gauges. Dresses abrasive wheel to change cutting action or shape. May grind special $T3form tools,$T1 involving special setups and wheel dressing. May analyze specifications and select tooling to be used on production jobs. May design, modify, or make special tools according to specifications or tooling requirements. May braze or solder carbide tips to cutting tools. May be required to have specialized experience with particular type of cutting tool sharpened or machine operated and be designated Broach Grinder (machine shop); Drill Sharpener (machine shop); Hob Grinder (machine shop). (references) |
| Sharpens shears, scissors, hair clippers, surgical instruments, cleavers, and other fine-edged cutting tools, using whetstone and grinding and polishing wheels: Holds cutting edge of tool against rotating wheel or clamps tool in holder or carriage to steady it during sharpening process. Sharpens surgical instruments and razors, using fine-grained grinding wheels, and hones them on whetstone. May sharpen handsaws. May brush heated mixture of glue and grit onto worn grinding wheels to rebuild them. May specialize in sharpening barbers' tools and be designated Barber-Tool Sharpener (any industry). May specialize in sharpening shears and scissors and be designated Scissors Grinder (any industry). May specialize in sharpening tools and implements in homes and business establishments and be designated Grinder (any industry) III. (references) | |
| Sharpens and smooths cutting edge of tools, such as axes, chisels, drills, picks, and straight cutting blades, using abrasive wheel: Presses button to start abrasive wheel. Positions and holds cutting edge of tool against machine guide and abrasive wheel to sharpen and smooth tool edge. Immerses tool in oil to cool edge. Repositions and holds tool edge against guide and abrasive wheel to further sharpen and smooth edge. May heat tools and immerse them in brine, oil, or water to harden them. May remove burrs from ground edges of tools, using whetstone. May sharpen and reduce diameter of circular cutting blades. May be designated according to kind of tool sharpened as Ax Sharpener (any industry); Chisel Grinder (any industry); Knife And Spur Grinder (saw. & plan.); Knife Grinder (any industry). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tool sharpener | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TOOL SHARPENER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | greie foyragh. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ooltay arpenershay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: harpooners, peashooter, personator, phenolates, pronatores. | |
-4 letters: anetholes, anopheles, antelopes, earphones, elephants, ephorates, harpooner, heartsore, latherers, nearshore, noosphere, operators, palterers, perorates, personate, petronels, phenetols, phenolate, plasterer, plethoras, portholes, pronators, ratooners, replaster, resonator, sharpener, shortener, telophase, threapers, trehalose. | |
-5 letters: alphorns, alterers, althorns, anethole, anethols, antelope, antrorse, earphone, earstone, elephant, enhaloes, enthrals, entresol, ephorate, eternals, ethanols. | |
| 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. | |
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