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A professional who tends machine that grinds cork into various shapes, such as semirounds, for shuttlecock bases and handle grips for fishing rods. Responsibilities include:
* Starts grinding machine and places workpiece in holding fixture or on arbor.
* Engages automatic feed or manually feeds cork against grinding drum of machine.
* May change grinding drums, using wrenches, to grind various shapes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that smooths cylindrical wooden articles by revolving articles against moving abrasive belt. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and adjusts tension of abrasive belt.
* Inserts article through collar or pipe, places article on conveyor, or dumps article in hopper to feed it into feed roller or holding guide (track) and against sanding belt.
* May replace worn sanding belts.
* May install collar or guide, according to size of stock, using handtools.
* May be designated according to article sanded as dowel-sander operator; handle-sander operator; pole-sander operator; wooden pencils sander.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends sanding wheel to smooth wooden shoe lasts to specified finish. Responsibilities include:
* Starts sanding machine and holds and turns last against revolving sandpaper-covered wheel to remove specified amount of material and smooth surface of last while retaining original contours.
* Feels surface of last to ascertain if last is of specified finish and verifies contours, using templates.
* Replaces worn sandpaper belt on sanding wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends sanding wheel to smooth wooden shoe lasts to specified finish. Responsibilities include:
* Starts sanding machine and holds and turns last against revolving sandpaper-covered wheel to remove specified amount of material and smooth surface of last while retaining original contours.
* Feels surface of last to ascertain if last is of specified finish and verifies contours, using templates.
* Replaces worn sandpaper belt on sanding wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that buffs surface of cork sheets, from which outsoles for shoes are cut, to roughen sheets for better adhesion and to remove unevenness. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheels to set distance between feeder and sander rolls, verifying setting with thickness gauge.
* Starts machine and feeds sheet sideways through upper rollers that sand, brush, and return finished material through lower rollers on same side for takeoff.
* Removes worn, and spirally winds new sandpaper onto roll, cuts ends on bias with scissors, and slips metal sleeves over ends to secure paper to roll.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sands and smooths sheets of composition cork to reduce thickness. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust sander to attain specified thickness.
* Places sheet on feed bed of machine and guides material through rollers to sanding mechanism.
* Depresses pedal to release pressure of rollers for removal of sheet.
* Gauges sheets periodically to verify thickness, using ruler, balance scale, and thickness gauge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends powered belt-sanding machine that sands panels and flat wooden stock. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel, moves lever, presses button, or flips switch to adjust clearance between sanding belt and feed bed, according to thickness of stock and depth of cut.
* Starts machine and inserts end of stock between feed rolls that carry stock through machine.
* Measures sanded stock to verify specified clearance between sanding belts and feed bed, using gauge, micrometer, or caliper.
* May replace worn sanding belts.
* May tend multibelt machine that does rough and finish sanding in tandem.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends sanding machine that sands cylindrical woodstock by rotating stock against strips of sandpaper backed by sanding brushes. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to space chucks of machine according to length of stock, and aligns feed rest for feeding stock to stock carriers, using wrench.
* Clamps strips of slitted sandpaper and sanding brushes in position.
* Pushes button to start machine.
* Places stock on feed rest for pick up by rotating spindles or positions stocks between chucks manually.
* Observes and feels stock discharged from machine into receptacle to verify smoothness, or removes stock from chucks manually.
* Cleans machine with airhose.
* May move levers to adjust feed carrier and rotating chucks, and to force sanding brushes against stock.
* May tend sanding machine that removes excess plaster of paris from corncob pipe bowls and be designated bowl sander.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends sanding machine that sands cylindrical woodstock by rotating stock against strips of sandpaper backed by sanding brushes. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to space chucks of machine according to length of stock, and aligns feed rest for feeding stock to stock carriers, using wrench.
* Clamps strips of slitted sandpaper and sanding brushes in position.
* Pushes button to start machine.
* Places stock on feed rest for pick up by rotating spindles or positions stocks between chucks manually.
* Observes and feels stock discharged from machine into receptacle to verify smoothness, or removes stock from chucks manually.
* Cleans machine with airhose.
* May move levers to adjust feed carrier and rotating chucks, and to force sanding brushes against stock.
* May tend sanding machine that removes excess plaster of paris from corncob pipe bowls and be designated bowl sander.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes back lines (ridges) from formed wooden heels. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts heel in holding device of machine and presses heel against sanding belt or abrasive disk to remove ridges.
Industry:Professional careers
