Volunteer Mechanic

We are looking for skilled mechanics who want to use their skills to help with our collection! Our volunteer mechanics repair and maintain the vehicles in the museum's collection in the Museum’s garage work area.

Job description: Inspection, evaluation, diagnosis, repair, and maintenance of a wide variety of self-propelled vehicles built from around 1900-1960.

Required knowledge and abilities:

1. 1. Patience
   2. Ability to work cooperatively with other team members of varying skills and temperaments
   3. Experience working on old vehicles
   4. An understanding of basic principles of old machinery and engines, including primitive carburetion, ignition, lubrication, and power transmission systems
   5. An understanding of automotive electrical systems and the ability to read and understand wiring diagrams
   6. A cautious and careful approach to disassembly and reassembly: if we break a 100-year-old part, we can’t buy a new one from NAPA.
   7. Willingness to carefully protect surfaces of vehicles being serviced
   8. Ability to use tools appropriately, keep the work area clean, safe, and orderly, and put tools back where they belong
   9. Willingness to learn from experience and observation. Old vehicles are not necessarily simple. Sometimes it takes a group effort to figure out how an old machine works.
   10. Flexibility: tasks vary from ordinary maintenance, to complicated repairs, to moving vehicles around the museum, to researching old manuals, to cleaning parts, and more.

If you are interested, contact Felicia Schrader by email (felicia@boyertownmuseum.org) or call 610-367-2090.