Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates tungsten-carbide cutting tips for use on lathes, planers, milling machines, and other metalworking tools, using mechanical or hydraulic press, furnaces, cutting and grinding wheels, and precision-measuring instruments: Weighs cobalt, carbon, tungsten, titanium, and other powdered metals on balance scale to obtain specified molding mixture.

• 2) Pours mixture from pans into molds or into hoppers for automatic feeding into molds in press.

• 3) Turns valves on press to compress mixture into billet.

• 4) Removes billet from press.

• 5) Sets automatic feed, time, and temperature controls on sintering furnace.

• 6) Feeds billets into furnace to fuse metals together.

• 7) Removes billets from furnace and cuts and grinds them into cutting tips, using diamond cutting wheel and electric grinding wheel.

• 8) Measures cutting edges of tips to ensure attainment of specified tolerances, using gauges, rulers, micrometers, and protractors.

• 9) Sets pyrometer controls of heat-treating furnace, and feeds cutting tips into furnace to harden them.

• 10) May regrind cutting tips and remeasure for conformance to specifications.