Job Description:

• 1) Taps refining furnaces or reduction pots by one of following methods to pour molten slag or nonferrous metal, such as copper or aluminum, into molds, crucibles, or ladles: Punches clay plug from taphole, using steel rod, to allow molten metal to flow into molds.

• 2) Molds clay plugs and inserts them into taphole to stop flow of metal, using rod, or builds clay-retaining wall over taphole.

• 3) Chips or burns away solidified slag and metal from taphole, using chisel-edged bar, oxygen lance, or by short-circuiting current from bus bar to taphole with steel rod.

• 4) Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR to place pouring crucible near pot.

• 5) Breaks hole in crust of electrolytic bath, using crowbar.

• 6) Clamps siphon lid on crucible, and inserts other end of siphon into hole.

• 7) Attaches airhose to siphon, and turns valve to siphon molten metal into crucible.

• 8) Lowers anode into bath, using pulley to maintain its position beneath bath surface.