"WAD-COMPRESSOR OPERATOR-ADJUSTER"
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Job Description:
- 1) Operates battery of compressor machines and drying ovens to press and dry cardboard-fiber and wood-flour slurry to form filler wads for shotgun shells: Turns valves to fill compressor jackets with slurry and to heat drying ovens.
- 2) Starts feed tank agitator, wad compressors, and conveyors.
- 3) Observes molded wads emerging from compressor punches to detect concave tops indicating fouled punch tip.
- 4) Unbolts punch tube and cleans accumulated slurry from tip, using compressed air or water.
- 5) Replaces bent or broken punches, tubes, knock-off fingers, and transfer plates, using handtools.
- 6) Weighs specified number of dried wads from each batch of slurry on grain scale, and computes quantity of water needed to produce wads of specified weight.
- 7) Measures thickness of wads, using dial gauge, and adjusts spacing between top and bottom punches to change wad thickness, using micrometers, feeler gauges, and precision gauge blocks.
- 8) Washes accumulation of slurry from machine.
- 9) May operate and adjust battery of stationary pneumatic compressors that press slurry into holed wads for further compressing into base wads and be designated Base-Wad Operator-Adjuster.
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