Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator Laminate layers of fiberglass on molds to form boat decks and hulls, bodies for golf carts, automobiles, or other products.
Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator is Also Know as
In different settings, Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator is titled as
- Boat Builder
- Boat Carpenter
- Chopper Gun Operator
- Fiberglass Laminator
- Fiberglass Technician
- Fiberglasser
- Gel-Coater
- Lamination Technician
- Laminator
- Roller
Education and Training of Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
Training Required for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator in different industries are
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Furniture Finishers
- Tire Builders
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Carpenters
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
What Do Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator do?
- Release air bubbles and smooth seams, using rollers.
- Spray chopped fiberglass, resins, and catalysts onto prepared molds or dies using pneumatic spray guns with chopper attachments.
- Select precut fiberglass mats, cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required by projects being assembled.
- Pat or press layers of saturated mat or cloth into place on molds, using brushes or hands, and smooth out wrinkles and air bubbles with hands or squeegees.
- Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes.
- Bond wood reinforcing strips to decks and cabin structures of watercraft, using resin-saturated fiberglass.
- Check completed products for conformance to specifications and for defects by measuring with rulers or micrometers, by checking them visually, or by tapping them to detect bubbles or dead spots.
- Trim excess materials from molds, using hand shears or trimming knives.
- Repair or modify damaged or defective glass-fiber parts, checking thicknesses, densities, and contours to ensure a close fit after repair.
- Cure materials by letting them set at room temperature, placing them under heat lamps, or baking them in ovens.
- Apply layers of plastic resin to mold surfaces prior to placement of fiberglass mats, repeating layers until products have the desired thicknesses and plastics have jelled.
- Mask off mold areas not to be laminated, using cellophane, wax paper, masking tape, or special sprays containing mold-release substances.
- Apply lacquers and waxes to mold surfaces to facilitate assembly and removal of laminated parts.
- Check all dies, templates, and cutout patterns to be used in the manufacturing process to ensure that they conform to dimensional data, photographs, blueprints, samples, or customer specifications.
- Inspect, clean, and assemble molds before beginning work.
- Trim cured materials by sawing them with diamond-impregnated cutoff wheels.
Qualities of Good Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
- Chopper guns
- Curing ovens
- Cutoff saws
- Fiber reinforced polymer FRP rollers
- Hand shears
- Heat lamps
- High-volume low-pressure HVLP spray guns
- Ladders
- Micrometers
- Paint application brushes
- Paint application rollers
- Paint spray guns
- Personal computers
- Pneumatic spray guns
- Power drills
- Power drivers
- Power grinders
- Power sanders
- Pressure-fed roller applicators
- Respirators
- Rotating mandrels
- Rulers
- Scaffolding
- Squeegees
- Trimming knives
- Vacuum bags
- Vacuum pumps
Technology Skills required for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricator
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software