Job Description:

• 1) Operates machines to form cut of copper ingot into wire samples for metallurgical testing: Smooths lateral sides of sample with emery wheel.

• 2) Heats sample in furnace to light-red glow.

• 3) Rolls sample into rod by passing rod through rolling machine.

• 4) Coils rod and immerses rod in acid bath to remove scale.

• 5) Tapers end of rod, using hammer.

• 6) Inserts tapered end through selected steel-wire die, and fastens it to powered clamp.

• 7) Depresses pedal to draw rod to specified size through series of dies of decreasing diameters.

• 8) Coils wire to prepare it for metallurgical analysis.