Application

This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to restore and repair clock components by manufacturing parts using hand skills and machine tools and also covers servicing power equalisation systems.

Application includes restoration and repair work to antique clocks where parts are no longer available.

Where machine manufacture of clock components is required unit MEM21022 Manufacture watch and clock components should also be selected.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least two (2) occasions and include:

following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices

identifying missing damaged or worn parts

liaising with customer, identifying restoration costs and planning and conducting repairs to maintain originality of timepiece

servicing and repairing power equalisation devices, including dismantling, assembling and setting up fusee systems

using appropriate tools and equipment for restoration work

preparing and using working drawings and templates to manufacture components by hand

applying appropriate heat treatment process and refinish manufacture process to achieve desired result and verifying correct function of manufactured components

repairing gears, wheels and arbors and test run with matched component

recording and documenting repairs.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate the required knowledge for this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

clock design and manufacture

design and drawing of replacement parts

techniques for manufacturing replacement parts

gear forms (cycloidal and involute)

gear terminology (pitch and root diameter)

types and uses of files, including shapes and cuts

jeweller saws and blades

metal types and applications to clock components

power equalisation devices and their function

finishing and polishing techniques and media.

Assessment Conditions

Assessors must:

have vocational competency in restoring clockwork mechanisms at least to the level being assessed with relevant industry knowledge and experience

satisfy the assessor requirements in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015 or its replacement and comply with the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, its replacement or equivalent legislation covering VET regulation in a non-referring state/territory as the case requires

Where possible assessment must occur in operational workplace situations. Where this is not possible or where personal safety or environmental damage are limiting factors, assessment must occur in a sufficiently rigorous simulated environment that reflects realistic operational workplace conditions. This must cover all aspects of workplace performance, including environment, task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job role environment skills

Conditions for assessment must include access to all tools, equipment, materials and documentation required, including relevant workplace procedures, product and manufacturing specifications

Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate.

Foundation Skills

• text: This section describes those required skills (reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy) that are essential to workplace performance in this unit of competency. Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Prerequisite Units

• {'code': 'MEM06007', 'title': 'Perform basic incidental heat/quenching, tempering and annealing'}
• {'code': 'MEM09002', 'title': 'Interpret technical drawing'}
• {'code': 'MEM11011', 'title': 'Undertake manual handling'}
• {'code': 'MEM13015', 'title': 'Work safely and effectively in manufacturing and engineering'}
• {'code': 'MEM16006', 'title': 'Organise and communicate information'}
• {'code': 'MEM18001', 'title': 'Use hand tools'}
• {'code': 'MEM21017', 'title': 'Service and repair clock timepieces'}
• {'code': 'MEM21019', 'title': 'Service and repair clock striking mechanisms'}
• {'code': 'MEM21020', 'title': 'Service and repair clock chiming mechanisms'}

Parent Qualifications

• MEM40119 — Certificate IV in Engineering
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