Job Description:

• 1) Tends press that forms pellets of explosives from mixed powder for use in charging or producing detonators for grenades, bombs, shells, and other ammunition: Rubs graphite on table plate and bottom of feed chute of machine.

• 2) Aligns dies and punches of machine, and adjusts cogwheels to which punches are attached to regulate punches to produce size pellets specified.

• 3) Fills machine hopper with powder and moves flywheel to make sample pellet.

• 4) Weighs pellet on balance scale and determines its size with micrometers.

• 5) Makes necessary adjustments to machine to produce pellets according to specifications.

• 6) Operates press by remote control due to fire and explosion hazards.