A professional who controls scruff and burn-off furnaces and auxiliary equipment to reclaim tin or terne from coating pots, tinplate, and used electrolytic anodes. Respnsibilities include:

• Washes scruff with hose to remove flux.
• Starts crushing machine, and shovels scruff into machine to reduce scruff to uniform size.
• Charges scruff into furnace, and ignites gas burner with torch.
• Adjusts heat controls to obtain specified temperature for reclaiming metal from scruff.
• Breaks up lumps in scruff, using rake and hoe.
• Turns valves to tap furnace and allow reclaimed metal to flow into iron kettle or melting pot.
• Heats kettle, and skims foreign metal from top, using ladle.
• Adds specified amounts of tin or lead in producing terne.
• Pours metal into pig or electrolytic anode molds.
• Weighs and records amount of recovered metal.
• Marks weight on pigs, and stores pigs in warehouse.