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.