Fitting and Turning

Fitters and turners are highly skilled craftspeople who manufacture construct. Assemble and t components for machinery, vehicles. Installations and other apparatus or articles. Fitter and turners are also responsible for the maintenance and repair of such equipment. Fitters and turners rst select and mark o the material required according to exact measurements on blueprints, drawings or a model. They then shape the rough piece of metal into its nal form with poweroperated tools such as lathes, milling, drilling and planning machines. Finally, they t the parts required to complete the machine or article and inspect and test the nal assembly for true fit.