Job Description:

• 1) Tends conveyor-screw coremaking machine that extrudes sand cores having uniform cross section: Installs specified core tube and conveyor screw in machine, using handtools.

• 2) Shovels sand into hopper, and tamps it down by hand.

• 3) Positions core plate at opening of core tube, and starts motor-driven or hand-operated conveyor screw which forces sand through core tube and onto core plate.

• 4) Cuts core at core tube opening when core fills plate.

• 5) May tend oven to bake cores.

• 6) Cuts baked cores to specified lengths with saw.