Job Description:

• 1) Operates machine to cut and deburr brass wind instrument tubes, and controls equipment to anneal tubes: Sets length gauge of saw and pushes tubes into rotating blade to cut tubes to specified length.

• 2) Inserts burring tool into chuck of turning lathe and holds tube ends against rotating burring tool to remove burs.

• 3) Places tubes in oven or on sprockets of wheel that revolves between two torches to anneal tubes for ease of bending.

• 4) May fill tube with pitch to facilitate bending tube manually around forming block.

• 5) Places tube in oven to melt pitch for removal from tube.

• 6) May place tube in balling-out mold and push steel balls through tube to size part or remove wrinkles.