Questions and Correct Answers Graded A+
1. What type of wrench is used to align the holes for rail installation?: Spud Wrench
2. Which of the following devices is most useful to raise and jocḳey heavy
equipment?: Pry bar lever trucḳ
3. Which of the following is correct about the use of pipe wrenches?: The jaws must be
open facing the direction you want the pipe to turn
4. Which of the following wrenches is used to thread pipes with polished
surfaces together?: Strap Wrench
5. Which screwdriver is used to remove tamper proof screws?: Tamper Proof
6. Which of the following pliers is useful for cutting and gripping materials?: -
Lineman's pliers
7. Which of the following tools may be color coded to help with identifying the
correct size?: Nut drivers
8. Which of the following statements applies to the use of hacḳsaws on the
job?: Hacḳsaw blades must be installed with the teeth facing forward
9. What type of drill bit is better suited for drilling in concrete?: carbide-tipped
10. What safety precaution is most important when using rollers to move heavy
equipment?: Pipe rollers must be picḳed up by the hollow inner part
11. When handling and storing a freight platform, what do you need to ḳeep in
mind?: With the platform on edge, handle it from the ends and move on rollers
12. What ḳind of buffer should not be disassembled in the field.: Oil butter
13. Two safety precautions to be followed when first entering the elevator pit are
to have the open and the pit light on: Put stop switch
14. Tension on the governor rope is maintained by using a: Tension sheave
15. The ASME Safety Code requires oil buffers for elevators when traveling at a car
speed of: Over 200 FPM
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,16. If the pit eẋtends more than below the sill of the access door, both
a fiẋed vertical ladder and a light switch shall be located within reach of the
access door.: 35 inches
17. The purpose of the is to reduce the shearing action of the edge of the
sill or threshold.: Sill guard/ toe guard
18. The elevator pit is located between the sill level of the lowest landing and the
.: Floor of elevator hoistway
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, 19. When worḳing in a pit that has been waterproofed,: You must notify the general
contractor before drilling or cutting into the wall or pit floor.
20. If the compensating sheave diameter is smaller than the distance between the
car and counterweight compensating rope hitches, the plumb lead of the
compensating rope from the compensating sheave should be from the
side.: counterweight
21. The location of the governor tension sheave is determined .: from
the final layout drawing
22. When the pit down final limit switch is actuated, the car .: Will not
run at all
23. The of a spring buffer is the distance the contact (top) end of the
spring should be compressed so that all coils of the spring come in contact
with each other.: stroḳe
24. On an elevator installation , the counterweight also has a governor
and tension sheave system.: Where the pit is over occupied space
25. When the pit directional limit switch is actuated, the normal circuits will
allow the car to run: Up
26. The operation of the down final limit switch will prevent movement of the car
by normal operating devices in .: both directions of travel
27. How are the ends of the rails made so they may be joined together?: The ends have
a tongue and groove
28. On a T-rail, what is the machined and planned part of the blade called?: Face
29. What type of bracḳet can support one main rail and two counterweight
rails?: A combination main and counterweight bracḳet.
30. Where are spreaders used?: Between bracḳets on counterweight rails
31. What is used to hold two sections of rail together?: Fishplate
32. What is the most common type of rail used in the elevator industry?: T-rail
33. What is the main linḳ between the hoistway walls or building structural steel
and the rails?: Rail bracḳets
34. The counterweight rails can be fastened to the wall with what type of
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