Job Description:

• 1) Operates power press equipped with pressure blocks or dies to straighten warped or bent metal objects, such as plates, structural castings, shapes, forgings, and shafts to specified dimensions: Examines workpiece to locate defects, using such devices as straightedge, deflection gauge, template, and square.

• 2) Positions and locks specified pressure blocks, or die, into ram of machine, or positions shims under high spots of workpiece.

• 3) Lifts and positions workpiece into bed of machine manually or using jib or crane.

• 4) Starts ram which presses out bent or high spots of workpiece.

• 5) Reexamines and repositions workpiece, changing shims for each pass until workpiece conforms with specifications.

• 6) May turn levers or handwheels to adjust depth and pressure of ram.

• 7) May preheat metal, using heating furnace or hand torch and clean dies between pressings, using compressed air, oil, and brush.

• 8) May tend machine equipped with preset dies to bend metal to specified shapes.

• 9) May grind rough edges from finished workpiece, using portable hand grinder.

• 10) May be designated according to part straightened as Barrel Straightener II; Crankshaft Straightener; Gear Straightener; or according to type press operated as Gag-Press Straightener.