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A professional who fabricates set of dies for use in forming and shaping metal jewelry blanks, following drawings or blueprints and using variety of metalworking machines and engraver's handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Brushes blue dye on surface of steel block workpiece.
* Measures, locates, and marks center of block with cross-lines, using divider and drafter's pencil.
* Copies design, freehand, from sample drawing or blueprint, maintaining size specifications.
* Scribes along drawn line, using scribe.
* Measures finished design for conformance to specifications, using calipers and gauges.
* Positions workpiece in vise and cuts out lines of design.
* Chips and cuts away excess metal to complete design, using metalworking machines and handtools.
* Verifies dimensions of workpiece, using calipers and gauges.
* Hardens and tempers steel block and drives it into another block of soft steel or plastic to form sunken design, using press, or sends it to machine shop for processing.
* Engraves other half of die by pounding thin sheets of metal into completed half.
* May engrave lettering and designs into dies, using pantograph machine.
* May cut out, shape, and harden upper steel die (forcer) used to stamp out jewelry articles and be known as Forcer Maker.
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A professional who polishes and resurfaces bores and cavities of wire drawing dies to specified size and angles, using hand laps or various die polishing machines, tools, and diamond cutting pastes. Respnsibilities include:
* Cleans dies by immersing them in tank with water, detergent, and agitating pebbles or sonic cleaner.
* Inspects worn dies to ascertain extent of wear, using loupe, steel gauge pins, and micrometer.
* Laps die surfaces to specified dimensions as it revolves in lapping machine or on bench lathe, using cotton swabs and progressively finer diamond pastes; or resurfaces and polishes die, using polishing machine and diamond pastes.
* Inspects die for cracks and smoothness of finish, using loupe or microscope, and measures diameter of die openings for conformance to specifications, using steel gauge pins and micrometer.
* May resurface and clean dies, using powered drill, grinder, or files and other handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who molds and assembles plastic tools, such as gauges, jigs, templates, and fixtures, following blueprints. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads layers of glass cloth on molds or forms and brushes each layer with plastic to build plastic tool following configuration of mold.
* Pries cured plastic tool from mold with prying tool.
* Calculates, from blueprints, location of guide and reference lines and holes for tools.
* Measures and marks location of lines and holes on tools, using calipers, micrometers, and protractors.
* Drills holes in tools, using drill press, and forces bushings into holes, using arbor press or hammer.
* Assembles tools by laminating them with glass cloth and resin.
* Verifies alignment and dimensions of assembly, using calipers, height gauges, gram scale, and sight level.
* Trims excess material from tool parts with power grinder.
* Fills space between adjoining parts with plastic.
* May build wood frame to support and maintain alignment of complex tools, using carpenter's handtools.
* May laminate tools to frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates precision plastic checking fixtures used to determine accuracy of stamped metal parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Casts plastic reproduction from model of part.
* Lays out reference lines on cast as guides in assembling, fitting, and trimming operations, using height gauges, surface plates, squares, protractors, and other measuring instruments.
* Cuts and trims casts following reference lines, using files, saws, planes, and other handtools.
* Assembles casts with glue, bolts, and other fasteners.
* Fits and fastens metal inserts into fixture at specified points to increase strength or accuracy.
* Verifies dimensions of completed fixture for conformance to specifications, using templates and measuring instruments.
* May fabricate metal inserts used in fixture, using powered saws, powered grinder, and files.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates precision plastic checking fixtures used to determine accuracy of stamped metal parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Casts plastic reproduction from model of part.
* Lays out reference lines on cast as guides in assembling, fitting, and trimming operations, using height gauges, surface plates, squares, protractors, and other measuring instruments.
* Cuts and trims casts following reference lines, using files, saws, planes, and other handtools.
* Assembles casts with glue, bolts, and other fasteners.
* Fits and fastens metal inserts into fixture at specified points to increase strength or accuracy.
* Verifies dimensions of completed fixture for conformance to specifications, using templates and measuring instruments.
* May fabricate metal inserts used in fixture, using powered saws, powered grinder, and files.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates blades for bandsaws, circular saws, and jigsaws from steel blanks or band stock, following work order specifications and using handtools, machine tools, and knowledge of metal characteristics. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects blank or band stock, according to size, type, and operating requirements of blade.
* Hammers dents, kinks, and twists from blank or band stock.
* Operates power roller to straighten blade and stretch (roll) blade to specified temper.
* Installs specified serrating dies in punch press and operates press to cut teeth in blade.
* Sharpens and sets blade teeth, using power grinder and swaging machine.
* Operates butt welding machine to join ends of bandsaw blade.
* May operate surface grinder to grind blanks to specified thickness.
* May heat-treat saws to relieve internal stress and temper metal.
* May specialize in tempering and aligning blades and be designated Sawsmith.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates blades for bandsaws, circular saws, and jigsaws from steel blanks or band stock, following work order specifications and using handtools, machine tools, and knowledge of metal characteristics. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects blank or band stock, according to size, type, and operating requirements of blade.
* Hammers dents, kinks, and twists from blank or band stock.
* Operates power roller to straighten blade and stretch (roll) blade to specified temper.
* Installs specified serrating dies in punch press and operates press to cut teeth in blade.
* Sharpens and sets blade teeth, using power grinder and swaging machine.
* Operates butt welding machine to join ends of bandsaw blade.
* May operate surface grinder to grind blanks to specified thickness.
* May heat-treat saws to relieve internal stress and temper metal.
* May specialize in tempering and aligning blades and be designated Sawsmith.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs and fabricates templates of assorted materials, such as metal, fiberglass, wood, and plastic, for laying out reference points and dimensions on metal plates, sheets, tubes, and structural shapes used for fabricating, welding, and assembling structural metal products or dies. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans and develops layout according to blueprints, work orders, tool planning orders, mockups, or sample parts, applying knowledge of trigonometry, product design, and properties of metal.
* Lays out design onto template material, using instruments, such as compass, protractor, dividers, and ruler, and marks shape and reference points, using scriber, pencil, chalk, and punch.
* Cuts, trims, drills, reams, files, shapes, and forms templates, using handtools, power tools, and fabricating machines, such as bandsaw, drill press, jointer, punch press, and shear.
* Nails, glues, screws, bolts, solders, or welds component parts to assemble templates.
* Marks job numbers, file codes, dimensions, layout, and fabricating instructions on templates.
* Repairs and reworks templates.
* May construct jigs and fixtures for fabricating machine operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out, machines, fits, and assembles metal parts to fabricate electronic (heat-sealing) dies used to form plastic products, working from blueprints or drawings and using milling machine, tools, and precision instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Studies blueprints, drawings, and specifications to plan machine operations applying knowledge of metal properties and machine shop math.
* Selects and positions brass or steel stock on milling table, by hand or using hoist.
* Sets up and operates milling machine to machine channels of specified width and depth in stock to form electrodes.
* Measures, marks, and cuts electrodes to specified sizes, using rule, scribe, and cutoff knife.
* Sets aside electrodes for further processing by other workers.
* Positions completed electrodes on die board template to locate reference points for lugs and die parts, and marks reference points, using hammer and punch.
* Drills and taps holes in aluminum plate that serves as base for die, using power drill with tapping attachment, and mounts dies to base with screws, using screwdriver.
* Operates milling machine to reduce electrode altitude from die bottom to top of electrodes, working to tolerances of plus or minus.001 inch.
* Measures dies to verify conformance to specifications, using vernier gauge, micrometer, and ruler.
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