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Career Guidance Knowledge engineering, manufacturing and construction K071 - engineering and engineering trades K0715 - mechanics and metal trades Dry tumbling
Description
The process of tumbling, not employing water to clean and remove burrs, but tumbling metal parts in a dry media and compound mixture in order to smoothen them, creating a hand-buffed appearance.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 0 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Optional for
- Tumbling machine operatorTumbling machine operators set up and operate tumbling machines, often wet or drie tumbling barrels, designed to remove excess material and burrs of heavy metal workpieces and prec…
Related skills
- Metal smoothing technologies
- Perform test run
- Inspect quality of products
- Processes performed by tumbling
- Wear appropriate protective gear
- Record production data for quality control
- Precious metal processing
- Tumbling machine parts
- Manufacturing of cutlery
- Ensure equipment availability
- Ferrous metal processing
- Monitor automated machines
Last updated on February 19, 2026
