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"SHRINK-PIT OPERATOR"
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  • 1) Controls shrink-pit furnace to assemble hoops and liners to tubes to form cannon barrels: Positions steel blocks in shrink-pit to form angle for subsequent positioning of tube so that breech end of tube will be at floor level.

  • 2) Cleans and oils contact surfaces of parts with gasoline, oil, and graphite to facilitate assembly.

  • 3) Lowers hoops into furnace, using hoist.

  • 4) Moves furnace controls and observes thermocouple pyrometer and recording potentiometer to heat furnace to specified temperature.

  • 5) Guides cold tube, lowered by crane, through hot hoops in furnace.

  • 6) Turns water valve on cooling ring and lowers ring into furnace, using hoist, to spray hoops and shrink them onto tube.

  • 7) Reheats hoop and tube assembly, guides liner into tube, and regulates water spray to shrink tube onto liner.

 

 

 


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DOT:   619.662-010

Job Number: 9351