- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who mixes specified ingredients with molten lead, pours lead into molds, and cuts lead slabs to specified dimensions. Respnsibilities include:
* Charges kettle with materials for melting, using shovel.
* Guides crane-supported mixer into kettle, and mixes contents in kettle.
* Opens valve permitting molten metal to flow into mold to form slab.
* Skims surface of bath to remove impurities, using skimming board.
* Marks cutting lines on lead sheet, using chalk, steel square, and tape measure, after rolling-mill operator has rolled slabs into sheets of specified thickness.
* Guides power-driven knife along chalklines to cut sheets to specified size.
* Cuts smaller sheets, using portable electric saw or slitting machine.
* May melt solidified metal in outlet pipes, using gas torch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes specified ingredients with molten lead, pours lead into molds, and cuts lead slabs to specified dimensions. Respnsibilities include:
* Charges kettle with materials for melting, using shovel.
* Guides crane-supported mixer into kettle, and mixes contents in kettle.
* Opens valve permitting molten metal to flow into mold to form slab.
* Skims surface of bath to remove impurities, using skimming board.
* Marks cutting lines on lead sheet, using chalk, steel square, and tape measure, after rolling-mill operator has rolled slabs into sheets of specified thickness.
* Guides power-driven knife along chalklines to cut sheets to specified size.
* Cuts smaller sheets, using portable electric saw or slitting machine.
* May melt solidified metal in outlet pipes, using gas torch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions and aligns molds used for hand or machine casting lead parts, such as grids, battery posts, and straps. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and secures mold on bed of machine, using handtools.
* Adjusts timing mechanism to coordinate flow of lead and coolant to molds.
* May oversee workers engaged in hand or machine casting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions and aligns molds used for hand or machine casting lead parts, such as grids, battery posts, and straps. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and secures mold on bed of machine, using handtools.
* Adjusts timing mechanism to coordinate flow of lead and coolant to molds.
* May oversee workers engaged in hand or machine casting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who casts needle or thread guide assemblies for use in knitting machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects size and type of mold according to instructions.
* Positions needles or thread guides into mold slots with fingers and closes mold preparatory to casting process.
* Ladles molten lead into mold opening to form casting around parts.
* Removes assembly from mold, using pliers.
* Cuts excess lead from assembly and smooths rough edges, using knife, saw, and electric grinder.
* May align needles or thread guides, using gauges, hammer, and pliers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who casts needle or thread guide assemblies for use in knitting machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects size and type of mold according to instructions.
* Positions needles or thread guides into mold slots with fingers and closes mold preparatory to casting process.
* Ladles molten lead into mold opening to form casting around parts.
* Removes assembly from mold, using pliers.
* Cuts excess lead from assembly and smooths rough edges, using knife, saw, and electric grinder.
* May align needles or thread guides, using gauges, hammer, and pliers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends furnace to melt lead-antimony pigs and scrap, and ladles molten metal into molds. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides pigs into furnace pot, allowing oil fumes to burn off melting metal to avoid accumulation of explosive oil vapor-air mixture.
* Stirs molten metal, skims dross from surface, and ladles metal into ingot molds.
* Turns valves to control flow of coolant water to molds.
* Inverts molds, when metal is solidified, and knocks ingots loose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends furnace that melts scrap metal and casts it into pigs (bars or ingots) for reuse. Respnsibilities include:
* Regulates furnace controls to attain specified temperature.
* Shovels scrap metal into furnace.
* Skims dross (scum) from molten metal, using ladle.
* Turns valve and allows molten metal to run into molds to form pigs.
* Removes cooled pigs from mold and stacks pigs in storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists casting-machine operator, automatic in molding storage battery grids performing such tasks as removing grids from machine rails, counting grids, and stacking grids on dollies.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists casting-machine operator, automatic in molding storage battery grids performing such tasks as removing grids from machine rails, counting grids, and stacking grids on dollies.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
