Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates battery of machines to compress to size and impregnate paper tubes with linseed oil preparatory to processing into shotgun shell bodies: Selects and measures arbors and dies with micrometers and plug gauges to verify specified size.

• 2) Installs arbors, arbor shanks, collets, dies, and die holders in machine, using handtools.

• 3) Examines paper tubes for crushed or torn ends, verifies inside diameter periodically, using plug gauge, and dumps tubes into hopper.

• 4) Turns valve to circulate oil through die holders and starts machine.

• 5) Observes machine operation and adjusts oil flow that facilitates passage of tubes through sizing dies and impregnates tube exteriors to waterproof and stiffen them.

• 6) Clears jammed tubes from dies, arbors, and feed channels, and blows out clogged oil lines with airhose.

• 7) Replaces tube-filled baskets.