Job Description:

• 1) Tends lathe mounted on rails that coils hot iron rods around bodies of fragmentation bombs to increase demolition properties of bombs: Pulls lever to move lathe to mouth of preheating furnace.

• 2) Lifts bomb from stockpile and clamps it in machine by tightening chuck and tailstock.

• 3) Pulls red-hot rod from furnace, attaches end to bomb fixture, and hammers portion of rod around bomb, using pulling bar and hammer.

• 4) Sets coil-spacing gauge.

• 5) Pushes button to start rotation of bomb in machine.

• 6) Stops machine when rod is coiled on bomb.

• 7) Welds end of coil to bomb.

• 8) Removes bomb from machine, using hoist.