Job Description:

• 1) Tends hot press and related equipment that hardens asbestos disk pads for use as brake linings: Positions metal die plate on roller-type conveyor, picks up stack of asbestos disk pads from table, and places individual pads into wells of die plate.

• 2) Discards broken or defective pads.

• 3) Pushes filled die plates onto racks of hot press.

• 4) Starts machine that automatically closes press to heattreat pads for specified time and opens press at end of press cycle.

• 5) Pulls die plates from press onto conveyor.

• 6) Removes cured disk pads from die plates, using knockout device that forces pads from plates.

• 7) Loosens stuck pads with rubber mallet and tosses pads into storage container.

• 8) Sprays empty die plates with silicone solution, using spray gun, to prevent pads from sticking to plates during heat-treating process.