Job Description:

• 1) Cuts, winds, and presses wire gauze to fabricate brushes of specified size for collecting and distributing electric current in generators and motors, using hand shear, mandrel, and hydraulic press: Cuts wire gauze to specified lengths, using hand shears.

• 2) Winds cut gauze on mandrel to form roll of several thicknesses.

• 3) Adjusts setscrews on bed of hydraulic press and positions rolled gauze in bed of press which compresses gauze to specified width and thickness.

• 4) Immerses compressed brush into molten lead, using tongs, and solders end of gauze to fasten exposed flap.

• 5) Holds gauze against bandsaw to bevel brush end.