A professional who operates buffing machine to recondition drawing, spinning, or roving frame rollers. Respnsibilities include:

• Cuts worn cot (rubber, cork, or leather covering) from roller arbor and cleans arbor with solvent.
• Screws arbor guides to handpress and turns knob to adjust press stroke according to length of roller.
• Dips new cot into water to soften glue.
• Positions arbor and cot in press and pulls lever to press cot onto arbor.
• Positions assembled roller between centers on buffing machine carriage.
• Turns carriage-stop adjustment screw to adjust machine to reduce cot diameter to specified size.
• Starts machine and turns handwheel to feed revolving roller against buffing wheel.
• Measures buffed roller with calipers to verify accuracy of diameter and places roller in gauge to ensure that cot is not tapered.
• Cuts leather to specified size and glues edges to make leather cots.
• Presses leather cot onto arbor, using arbor press.
• Presses wooden tool against ends of leather cot as roller turns in lathe to shrink cot onto arbor.
• Cuts cloth covering and glues it onto clearer rollers that clean lint from drawing rollers.