- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends oxidizing tank that produces dark, lusterless, decorative finish on surface of metal articles, such as door lock parts, buttons, buckles, and small-arm parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Places containers of workpieces in tank of oxidizing solution for specified time.
* Dips articles in successive baths to neutralize oxidation.
* May start tumbling barrel to dry oxidized pieces in sawdust.
* May mix chemical solutions according to formula.
* May tend degreasing tank to clean workpieces before oxidizing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cleans, dips, and sprays toy parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes paint and thinner of specified color and viscosity, and pours solutions into dipping tanks or containers of electrostatic spraying unit.
* Adjusts controls of cleaning solution tanks for specified temperature, conveyor controls for rate of movement, and sprayer controls for rate of spray and voltage as indicated by dials.
* Observes conveyor line until parts run is finished, and changes paint color to meet requirements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tumbling barrel-painting machine that coats articles of porous materials, such as wooden shoe tree turnings or toy parts, with coating materials, such as paint, varnish, or lacquer. Respnsibilities include:
* Places parts into tumbling barrel.
* Mixes coating material and thinner as specified and pours over parts in barrel.
* Starts barrel rotating to impart coating material on articles while heated air is blown through barrel to dry articles.
* Stops rotation of barrel, examines articles for uniformity of coating, adds more paint as required, and restarts rotation.
* Unloads barrel, breaking apart any articles that are stuck together.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tumbling barrel-painting machine that coats articles of porous materials, such as wooden shoe tree turnings or toy parts, with coating materials, such as paint, varnish, or lacquer. Respnsibilities include:
* Places parts into tumbling barrel.
* Mixes coating material and thinner as specified and pours over parts in barrel.
* Starts barrel rotating to impart coating material on articles while heated air is blown through barrel to dry articles.
* Stops rotation of barrel, examines articles for uniformity of coating, adds more paint as required, and restarts rotation.
* Unloads barrel, breaking apart any articles that are stuck together.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with compressed-air spray nozzles that coat products or materials with oil, paint, lacquer, varnish, shellac, or rustproofing agents. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours premixed paint or lacquer into reservoir of machine and couples hose to spray nozzles.
* Moves sleeve on nozzles to attain specified spraying pressure and turns thumbscrew to direct nozzles toward articles or materials to be coated.
* Places articles or material onto conveyor or onto transfer table that carries them between spray nozzles.
* May mix paints with thinner solution according to formula.
* May regulate temperature of coating solution.
* May remove articles or materials from conveyor belt and place articles or materials in drying racks or container.
* May be designated according to coating applied as lacquer coater; oiling-machine operator; machine spray-painter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that polishes casein, plastic, or shell buttons. Respnsibilities include:
* Places buttons in tumbling barrel filled with powdered pumice stone and water, or caustic soda solution.
* Starts tumbling barrel revolving which causes abrasive to remove tool marks from buttons and to round edges.
* Dumps buttons from tumbling barrel into open barrel and covers them with hot water.
* Starts barrel revolving and places specified quantities of sulfuric and hydrochloric acids in barrel to polish buttons.
* Places buttons in barrel of dry sawdust or ground corncobs to remove residue of acid and give luster to buttons.
* May tend machines that tumble pearl buttons in bleaching solutions to lighten color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that segregates particles of dry materials, such as sand, powdered minerals, feed, resins, and chemicals, into batches of uniform size by sifting through one or more oscillating screens. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts or clamps screen of specified mesh to frame, using handtools.
* Pours or shovels specified quantities of material into hoppers or onto feed conveyor of machine, manually or using hoist or lift truck.
* Positions takeoff conveyor, bins, or drums under screens to receive sifted material.
* Throws switch to activate takeoff conveyor or removes full containers manually or using hoist or truck.
* May measure or weigh and maintain records of material sifted.
* May lubricate machine and conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that segregates particles of dry materials, such as sand, powdered minerals, feed, resins, and chemicals, into batches of uniform size by sifting through one or more oscillating screens. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts or clamps screen of specified mesh to frame, using handtools.
* Pours or shovels specified quantities of material into hoppers or onto feed conveyor of machine, manually or using hoist or lift truck.
* Positions takeoff conveyor, bins, or drums under screens to receive sifted material.
* Throws switch to activate takeoff conveyor or removes full containers manually or using hoist or truck.
* May measure or weigh and maintain records of material sifted.
* May lubricate machine and conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that grinds and bags peat moss. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps peat moss into shredder that removes foreign matter, using tractor.
* Observes graph on gas furnace that dries peat moss and adjusts thermostat to maintain specified temperature.
* Inspects equipment to detect jams and mechanical breakdowns in equipment which cools and grinds peat moss.
* Observes and feels ground peat moss to determine its consistency.
* Stops equipment to clear jams and make minor adjustments to fans, blowers, and hammer mill, using handtools.
* Attaches bag to spout of filling machine and pulls lever to start machine that fills bag to specified weight.
* Removes bag and places it in loading zone.
* Loads filled bags on handtruck and transfers them to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that spray protective coating of lacquer inside cans. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts lever to center spraying nozzle in can-holding pocket.
* Starts machine and observes spraying process as cans revolve on holding turret.
* Pulls cans from discharge line and inspects coating for conformity to specifications.
* Stops machine and removes jammed cans manually or with tongs.
* Cleans excess lacquer from spray nozzle and machine, using solvent and brush.
* May adjust machine and spraying mechanism, using wrenches.
* May regulate oven temperature to ensure uniform drying.
* May mix lacquer spray solution, according to formula, and fill machine reservoirs.
Industry:Professional careers
