Job Description:

• 1) Sets up series of machines to load platefuls of small arms cartridges with powder and bullets: Changes setting screws on eccentric arm of shakers to adjust length of stroke of shaker table according to caliber and style of cartridge and bullet processed.

• 2) Installs powder volume plate in loading unit and inserts blocks of punches and collets in presses to seat and crimp bullets, using handtools.

• 3) Turns setscrews, stop nuts, and turnbuckles to adjust, by trial and error, side guides, backstops, conveyor fingers, and stroke of press gates, using height gauges.

• 4) Distributes plates to each work station according to work requirements.

• 5) Empties powder from volume plate into tray and weighs it, dividing by number of cartridges in plate to determine if total load and average per cartridge are within weights specified.

• 6) Changes volume plate for one with larger or smaller cavities until total and average loads meet specifications.

• 7) Observes unit in operation to detect malfunctioning.

• 8) Starts machine to load plate of cartridges and sends samples to ballistics laboratory for approval before releasing unit to operating crew.