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parts-casting-machine operator
A professional who operates one or more automatic single- or multiple-mold casting machines to mold storage battery parts, such as grids, connectors, and posts. Respnsibilities include:
- Loads lead bars or shovels pig lead and scrap lead into melting kettle.
- Ignites burners and sets controls to melt lead and heat molds to specified temperature.
- Smokes or coats mold with compound to prevent sticking, using acetylene torch or spray gun.
- Aligns and adjusts mold halves to ensure casting of grids according to specified thickness, using handtools.
- Turns valves to control flow of lead to ladles and water to mold-cooling sprays.
- Starts machine that automatically pours specified amount of lead from ladle into mold.
- Inspects parts ejected from molds to detect defects or discolorations, and measures and weighs grids, using fixed gauges and scale, to ensure conformance to thickness and weight specifications.
- Adjusts temperatures of lead and molds and flow of lead or water to correct defects.
- Removes lead adhering to mold, using brush or scraper.
- Skims dross from molten lead, using hand ladle.
- May operate single-mold machine equipped with press that automatically trims grids.
- May repair pipe connections and stitch or replace conveyor belt, using handtools.
- May change or adjust molds.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s): automatic_casting-machine_operator
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- Industry/Domain: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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