Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that gauges and weighs cartridges and examines cartridges for defects: Scoops handful of cartridges from bin and arranges them with heads in one direction.

• 2) Rolls cartridges from hand to hand and examines them for such defects as dents, scratches, and missing or inverted primers.

• 3) Places acceptable cartridges on inclined chute for gravity feeding into gauging and weighing mechanisms.

• 4) Starts machine and observes operation to detect jamming.

• 5) Removes misaligned cartridges from gravity chute, using special hook tool.

• 6) Moves lever to eject jammed cartridges.

• 7) Notifies GAUGE-AND-WEIGH-MACHINE ADJUSTER of machine malfunction.

• 8) May examine cartridges carried past work station in nests of rotating conveyor table and press button to drop out defective cartridges.

• 9) May tend machine that gauges but does not weigh cartridges and be designated Gauging-Machine Operator.