1. Sets up and operates battery of machines to press lead slugs into buckshot for shotgun ammunition: Removes and replaces dies, punches, and die blocks, and adjusts knockout pins, feed fingers, and stops, using handtools. 2. Fills hoppers with lead slugs from scoop or tote box. 3. Starts machines and …
1. Tends machine that bevels watch screwheads or polishes cap jewel plates: Secures watch part, shellacked onto surface of metal blocks, in holding fixture and starts machine that presses block of parts against rotating brush to bevel edges of slot or outside diameter of screwheads. 2. Spreads abrasive mixture over …
1. Tends machine that inserts and secures bristles into ferrule to form paint brush heads: Places bristles on feed belt and stacks ferrules in vertical feeding magazine. 2. Starts machine, observes movement of bristles on belt, and taps bristles on belt with fingers to control level of bristles. 3. Turns …
1. Tends machines that wash cooking liquor from pulp: Starts machines and pumps, and turns valves to regulate spray from water jets and flow of pulp through washer to remove cooking liquor. 2. Opens drains to dispose of wash water or transfer wash water to recovery storage tank. 3. May …
1. Buys and sells grain on commission, for customers, through commodity exchange: Advises customers on probable price changes and factors which may affect prices, such as crop carryover, normal grain production and consumption, foreign and domestic crop conditions, and price differentials among various grades of grains. 2. Notifies customer when …
1. Sets up and operates one or more broaching machines to broach internal or external cylindrical or flat surfaces of metal workpieces according to specifications, tooling instructions, standard charts, and knowledge of broaching: Reads blueprint, job order, or specifications to determine dimensions and tolerances, and tooling instructions, such as holding …
1. Operates one or more previously setup broaching machines to broach internal or external surfaces of metal workpieces to specifications, on production basis: Examines blueprints or work order to determine finished specifications of workpiece. 2. Lifts workpiece manually or using hoist, and places and secures it in holding fixture, using …
1. Operates machines and equipment to dehydrate, pulverize, mix, and mold ingredients to produce fuel briquettes: Shovels or empties sacks of materials into hoppers or bins, or starts elevator-conveyors. 2. Turns valves, handwheels, or rheostats to move and control flow of fuels, water, and dry or liquid binders to machines. …
1. Tends pumps to maintain brine wells at specified levels to ensure adequate salt supply for chemical processes: Turns valves and monitors gauges and water-pressure recorders to maintain level and brine strength of wells within prescribed limits, and to reverse flow of flush wells as directed. 2. Determines specific gravity …
1. Tends gravity-fed brine-filled tanks that separate young, tender vegetables, such as peas and lima beans, from more matured vegetables: Turns valve to add solution to tank and maintain specified level. 2. Pushes vegetables down chute to prevent clogging, as vegetables emerge from tank. 3. Cleans tank and work area, …
1. Tends machine that mixes water and salt to prepare brine solution for use in preserving or separating food products: Turns valves to transfer solution from mixing machine to storage or separator tanks. 2. Tests specific gravity of solution with hydrometer and adds water or salt to bring solution to …
1. Weighs and adds specified quantities of chemicals to brine to purify solution preparatory to further treatment and refining of salt: Weighs chemicals, such as soda ash and lime, using scale, and pours them into brine tank. 2. Removes residue from tank, using water hose and pumps. 3. Dissolves specified …
1. Tends tanks, filters, and auxiliary equipment that produce brine solution for use in electrolytic cells: Pumps water through salt beds or starts conveyor bringing salt from storage area for dissolution in water, producing mixture of specified salt content. 2. Admits salt water and specified amounts of liquid chemicals, such …
1. Tends machine that presses hat brims to smooth and flatten brims: Selects specified flange and positions flange over hole in heated machine bed. 2. Inserts hat crown in hole with brim resting on flange. 3. Moves lever to lower machine press against hat brim or raise machine bed, containing …
1. Inspects railroad bridges, trestles, culverts, and waterways to detect damage or wear and to ensure structures conform to safety regulations, building codes, and railroad engineering specifications: Inspects waterways to determine need for cleaning, straightening, or enlargement. 2. Inspects masonry in tunnels, culverts, and waterways to detect cracks in concrete …
1. Lays firebrick and refractory tile to build, rebuild, reline, or patch high-temperature or heating equipment, such as boilers, ovens, furnaces, converters, cupolas, ladles, and soaking pits, according to job orders and blueprints: Lays out work, using chalklines, plumb bobs, tapes, squares, and levels. 2. Calculates angles and courses for …
1. Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in laying brick, tile, cinderblock, and other materials to construct or repair structures, such as walls, arches, sewers, and partitions: Assigns workers to specific duties. 2. Inspects work in progress to determine conformance to specifications. 3. Trains new workers in use of …
1. Performs any combination of following duties to assist BRICKLAYER, FIREBRICK AND REFRACTORY TILE in repairing and rebuilding furnaces, ovens, ladles, and similar structures: Removes burned and damaged brick and cleans surfaces of settings, using bar, hammers, chisels, and wire brush. 2. Sweeps and removes refuse from casings. 3. Conveys …
1. Sets up and operates series of machines to mix ingredients, extrude clay mixture, and to cut extruded column into brick and tile products: Turns valves to feed and regulate flow of ingredients into mixing machine and to create vacuum in de-airing machine. 2. Installs die, core, rings, and former …
1. Tends machine that turns and shapes briar blocks into smoking bowl blanks: Clamps block in holding device of wood lathe. 2. Turns wheel that feeds block into machine equipped with preset cutting tools that simultaneously shape sides, turn top, and bore hole in briar block. 3. May use power …
1. Tends equipment that cools and adds yeast to wort to produce beer: Starts pumps and turns valves to control flow of refrigerant through cooler coils, to regulate flow of hot wort from tank through cooler into starting tank, and to admit specified amounts of air into wort.
1. Tends machine that breaks resistor plates along previously scored lines and loads resistors into magazines for further processing: Attaches guides of specified size to track on machine that feeds resistors into magazine, using allen wrench. 2. Snaps magazine onto machine. 3. Breaks scrap edges from plates. 4. Places plates …
1. Sets up and operates thermal brazing machine which bonds components of fabricated metal products as specified by work orders, blueprints, and data charts: Selects torch tips, braze alloy, and flux, according to type and thickness of metal, data charts, or previous brazing record. 2. Screws tips to torches. 3. …
