List of Career Duties Under Foundry Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER FOUNDRY BUSINESS SECTOR
Bench Metal Patternmaker Career Duties
- Fits, assembles, and hand finishes castings and parts in making of metal foundry patterns, using handtools analyzing specifications according to knowledge of pattern-making methods
- Study blueprint of part to be cast, computes dimensions and plans sequence of operations
- Dress casting down to specified dimensions, using files, scrapers, powered hand grinders and drill press
- Assemble pattern, using handtools bolts, screws, and other fasteners
- Verify conformance of pattern dimensions to specifications, using templates measuring instruments, like scale, calipers, and micrometer
- May make templates for own use in inspecting finished surfaces [Template Maker any industry ]
- May operate welding equipment in assembling pattern [Welder, Combination welding ].
Boiler Reliner Plastic Block Career Duties
- Reline furnace with plastic block refractory material, using handtools
- Remove worn or damaged lining, using handtools
- Measure furnace wall cuts required number of sheets from plastic block, using saw
- Drill holes in wall bolts overlapping layers of plastic to walls
- Hammer surface to compress layers into solid sheet.
Bondactor machine Operator Career Duties
- Spray interior surfaces of cupolas with refractory mixture to reline interiors, using spray equipment
- Load specified amount of material, like clay, sand and water into mixing tank of machine starts machine to mix ingredients
- Install preformed metal scaffolding in interior of cupola, using handtools
- Open compressed-air valves on machine to force mixture into hose, climbs scaffolding with hose, and sprays surfaces
- May chip clay from interior of cupola, lay bed of cupola, or repair ladle linings.
Bonder Career Duties
- Tend machine that bonds cope drag together to form completed shell mold
- Turn dials of shell-mold bonding machine to heat upper pressure plate set pressure stroke of ram as specified
- Position drag onto lower pressure plate of machine
- Fill vibrator pan with bonding agent, and pushes button to sift bonding agent onto edge of drag
- Position cope on drag, and pushes button or pulls lever which pushes hot plate onto cope to heat compress cope to drag
- Knock out sprue holes with iron rod
- Direct airhose onto mold to blow out loose sand
- May tend machine that automatically releases pressure after specified period of time
- May assemble cores to drag cope.
Cast shell Grinder Career Duties
- Clean rough finishes surfaces of casting, using powered grinding wheel mounted on counterbalanced frame
- Position casting under grinding wheel manually or using crane or hoist
- Grab grinder handles pulls wheel down against casting to remove projections, like gates, fins and parting lines, from surface
- Reposition casting to grind other areas
- May change position of belts on motor pulleys to increase revolutions per minute when grinding wheel wears down
- May remove cracks in surfaces of ingots, billets, and forgings, using grinder
- May grind castings, using stationary grinder be designated Stand Grinder foundry .
Casting Finisher Career Duties
- Clean rough finishes surfaces of casting, using powered grinding wheel mounted on counterbalanced frame
- Position casting under grinding wheel manually or using crane or hoist
- Grab grinder handles pulls wheel down against casting to remove projections, like gates, fins and parting lines, from surface
- Reposition casting to grind other areas
- May change position of belts on motor pulleys to increase revolutions per minute when grinding wheel wears down
- May remove cracks in surfaces of ingots, billets, and forgings, using grinder
- May grind castings, using stationary grinder be designated Stand Grinder foundry .
Casting Inspector Career Duties
- Inspect metal castings for dimensional accuracy surface defects
- Measure dimensions of casting, using fixed gauges
- Examine casting for defects, like cracks blowholes
- Separate marks defective castings according to salvage operation required
- May chip surplus metal from casting, using hammer chisel
- May tap casting with hammer to define from sound if casting has been heattreated or to detect defects, like cracks or thin walls.
Casting Tester Career Duties
- Inspect metal castings for dimensional accuracy surface defects
- Measure dimensions of casting, using fixed gauges
- Examine casting for defects, like cracks blowholes
- Separate marks defective castings according to salvage operation required
- May chip surplus metal from casting, using hammer chisel
- May tap casting with hammer to define from sound if casting has been heattreated or to detect defects, like cracks or thin walls.
Centrifugal casting machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend centrifugal casting machine that casts tubular metal products, like pipes, brakedrums, or bushings
- Lays specified mold on spinning mechanism
- Brush dirt metal fragments from inside of mold
- Place fastens cover on ends of mold
- Preheat mold with torch
- Start machine sprays insulation on inside surface of rotating mold
- Pour molten metal into mold, using hand ladle
- Allow mold to spin for specified time to solidify metal against mold walls
- Unfasten mold cover removes casting, using tongs or hydraulic ram
- May set machine controls to rotate mold at specified speed.
Centrifugal casting machine Operator Career Duties
- Operate centrifugal casting machine to cast artillery barrels
- Grind rough spots from inside of mold with grinding wheel mounted on end of long rod
- Fill pits on inside surface of mold with refractory material
- Fits refractory stoppers into ends of mold
- Mount pouring box, which serves as funnel for pouring melt from furnace into mold, on special frame at breech end of mold fits spout of box through hole in stopper
- Start machine rotating at specified speed
- Direct Overhead Crane Operator any industry 921.663-010 in positioning portable furnace containing melt for pouring, and pushes electric controls to tilt furnace pour melt into pouring box
- Force casting from mold, using hydraulic ram
- Observe instruments and records data, like temperature of mold before and after pouring time required to complete pour
- May operate machine from control board be designated Casting-Machine-Control-Board Operator foundry .