Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks involved in assembling knife handles and handles for hollowware, such as creamers and sugar bowls: Holds halves of handles against electrodes on spot-welding machine to tack-weld them together.

• 2) Places handles on rack hooks and dips them in tank of flux.

• 3) Places knife handle halves in assembly press to fit halves together onto metal holding frame preparatory to soldering.

• 4) Inserts premeasured amount of solder in hollow handle.

• 5) Loads handles on screen conveyor that carries them through furnace.

• 6) Positions soldered handles in fixture of milling machine or belt grinder to face mouth of handles.

• 7) Positions handle in fixture and depresses pedal that submerges handles into water tank and forces compressed air into fixture.

• 8) Observes handles to detect air bubbles indicating faulty soldering.

• 9) Brushes flux on inside of handles and sprinkles them with powdered solder, using reed scoop.