A professional who performs any combination of tasks involved in melting, refining, and pouring solder. Respnsibilities include:

• Shovels scrap into furnace melting pots and adjusts fuel valves to regulate melting.
• Skims off dross with ladle.
• Plunges sieve box filled with potatoes to bottom of molten metal so that steam from charring potatoes agitates metal and brings additional dross to top.
• Skims off remaining dross.
• Ladles refined metal from pots to molds.
• Removes cooled metal from molds and places it on handtruck.
• Mixes tin, lead, or refined scrap solder in melting pots, as directed by supervisor, solder making.
• Ladles new solder into pig molds or into troughs of solder-making table.
• May cut bars into short lengths.
• Ties bars into bundles and packs bundles for shipment or storage.
• May charge lead and tin pigs into furnace melting pots, by hand or using overhead power hoist.
• May weigh pigs preparatory to charging furnace, using scale.
• May level machine that converts molten lead-tin alloys into powdered metal to process solder cream and be designated Solder Cream Maker.