Job Description:

• 1) Operates extrusion machine to form flat metal strips into tubular, channel, angular, or other shapes.

• 2) Positions and bolts or clamps single or multiple dies on bed of press, using handtools.

• 3) Loads coil of strip metal on spindle of machine.

• 4) Feeds strip between dies, and locks front end of strip in gripping jaws or dog of power carriage.

• 5) Turns handwheels to close and tighten dies on metal strip and starts machine.

• 6) Stops machine after metal is formed and removes piece from between dies.

• 7) Cuts formed piece into specified lengths, using electric saw, and verifies conformity of piece to specifications, using micrometers and calipers.

• 8) Clears dies of loose burrs with blast of compressed air.

• 9) May straighten sheet metal parts.