Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of machines that trim small arms cartridge cases, bullet jacket blanks, or artillery shell cases to specified length: Loads small arms cartridge cases or bullet jacket blanks into hopper of automatic machine or positions artillery shell cases by hand in feeding device of trim machine.

• 2) Turns stop nuts and setscrews, using handtools, to adjust chuck and feed punch to cut blanks to specified length.

• 3) Starts machine and observes operation of feeding, cutting, and ejection mechanisms to detect malfunction.

• 4) Extracts jammed pieces, using fingers or wire hook.

• 5) Examines trimmed pieces for such defects as dents, burrs, or scratches.

• 6) Verifies conformity to specified dimensions, using fixed gauges.

• 7) Sharpens cutters on bench grinder.