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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.7 - using hand tools S6.7.3 - smoothing surfaces of objects or equipment Apply polishing lubricants
Description
Apply the appropriate lubricant matching the kind of metal of the processed metal workpiece during polishing processes, such as was or kerosene.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 3 occupations
- Total: 4 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Metal polisherMetal polishers use metal working equipment and machinery to polish and buff almost finished metal workpieces in order to enhance their smoothness and appearance and to remove oxid…
Optional for
- Fitter and turnerFitters and turners use machine tools to create and modify metal parts according to set specifications in order to fit components for machinery. They ensure the finished components…
- Jewellery polisherJewellery polishers ensure that finished jewellery pieces are cleaned by customer demand or prepared for sale. They may also perform minor repairs. They use either hand tools …
- Tool and die makerTool and die makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to create metal tools and dies, which are both needed in several areas of manufacturing, and produce…
Related skills
- Metal polishing machine parts
- Set up the controller of a machine
- Remove processed workpiece
- Operate metal polishing equipment
- Monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- Supply machine
- Remove inadequate workpieces
- Types of metal
- Join metals
- Perform machine maintenance
- Cut metal products
- Quality standards
- Metal joining technologies
Last updated on February 19, 2026
