A professional who sprays variety of objects, such as valves, clutch plates, and cylinder linings, on production basis, to coat them with specified thickness of metal. Respnsibilities include:

• Cleans and roughens surface of object in sand or shotblast cabinet.
• Fastens objects in fixture or between bench centers.
• Preheats object for spraying, using oxyacetylene torch or metalizing gun.
• Moves controls to set specified rate of wire feed and flow of oxygen and fuel gases through metalizing gun.
• Ignites gases to melt wire and presses button or trigger to release compressed air which atomizes and sprays molten metal onto workpiece.
• Manually directs spray over object to apply coating of specified thickness.
• May spray metal objects with soft solder preparatory to assembly and be designated Solder Sprayer.