Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates induction heating equipment to braze together metal components, according to blueprint, work order, or layout specifications: Positions and clamps fixtures and stops into machine, using square, rule, and template.

• 2) Selects heating coil, or bends copper or alloy tubing or wire into coils, which outline joint to be brazed.

• 3) Bolts or screws coil to electrode.

• 4) Turns knobs to adjust electrical current for type and thickness of metal, as computed from data charts.

• 5) Places wire, strip, or preformed piece of brazing alloy over edges of components and brushes flux along seams to be joined.

• 6) Assembles and positions workpieces into holding fixture.

• 7) Starts electric current in coils to heat workpiece and melt alloy.

• 8) Turns off current and allows workpiece to cool, or directs stream of water or air onto workpiece, or turns handle to fill coil with water to cool workpiece.

• 9) Removes workpiece, using tongs or tweezer, when brazed metal has solidified, as indicated by color.

• 10) May connect holding fixture to electrode instead of using heating coil.

• 11) May set timing control to shut off current automatically after specified period of time.

• 12) May anneal finished workpiece to relieve internal stress.

• 13) May dip workpiece into chemical bath to remove impurities or flux.

• 14) May bond workpieces together with soft solder and be known as Solderer, Induction.