List of Career Duties Under Recording Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER RECORDING BUSINESS SECTOR
Center punch Operator Career Duties
- Tend punch press that punches center holes in phonograph records or stamper
- Remove stack of records or stampers from conveyor places them on machine holder
- Position record in slot over punch die of machine or centers disk under punch die, using calibrated microscope starts machine
- Remove punched record, and simultaneously positions unpunched record in machine or removes places stamper on sanding spindle for further processing
- Place punched records in trays.
Compound Worker Career Duties
- Perform any combination of following tasks in compound room of phonograph record manufacturing plant
- Weigh out specified quantities of ingredients, like lampblack, resins plastic materials and dumps them into hopper of mixing machine
- Pull kneaded compound onto rollers of mixing machine, using hook, as material flows from discharge end of machine
- Break plastic sheeting into sheets of uniform length as it emerges on conveyor from cooling process, and weighs sheets on skids
- Remove labels from defective records, using machine, to salvage material for reprocessing
- Dump delabeled records into machine that grinds material into scrap
- May be designated according to particular task performed as Breaker Table Worker recording , Grinder recording , Roller Hand recording , Weigher recording .
Label Drier Career Duties
- Dry phonograph labels in oven for use by record-press section
- Obtain specified labels from stock spreads them on drying racks of oven
- Turn dial of automatic timer to start drying cycle
- Remove dried labels from racks separates labels by title
- Stack labels on warming plates near record presses, according to production schedule
- Collect, sorts, and returns unused labels to storage at end of shift.
Labeling machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend machine that attaches gummed identification labels to phonograph records
- Place labels on machine spindle turns on heating element in ram of machine
- Position record on machine bed presses pedal to start labeling mechanism
- Remove labeled record while simultaneously positioning unlabeled record on machine
- Repeat operations to label reverse side of record
- May tend machine that attaches labels punches hole in center of records in same operation.
Magnetic tape Winder Career Duties
- Tend machines that wind magnetic tape into reels or cassette hubs for use in communication control equipment, instruments, and computers
- Position tape supply reels or cassette hubs on letoff windup spindles of tape winding machines
- Loop tape from supply reels through machine guides into blank reels or hubs
- Turn knob of footage counter devices that automatically cut tape stop machines when specified length of tape has been wound into blank reels or hubs
- Push switches to start individual machines removes wound reels or hubs when machines stop
- Scrape detected surface defects from tape with knife
- Splice tape ends together to form continuous loops in cassettes, using bench splicer
- Insert filled and blank hubs into cassettes attaches covers
- Pack reels and cassettes into containers labels containers for shipment.
Matrix bath Attendant Career Duties
- Maintain electrolytic baths in operating condition for plating phonograph record matrices
- Draw sample of solution from tanks, using pipette
- Test strength of solution, using hydrometer and adds specified amounts of metallic salts, acid, or water to solution as needed
- Examine anodes for specified size for position in baths
- Activate controls reads meters to test electrical connections for open or short condition.
Matrix Plater Career Duties
- Electroplate phonograph record matrices to form metal replicas of positive negative recorded surfaces, and to form stamper used in pressing phonograph records
- Insert silver-coated lacquer disk original recording in rubber masking ring to prevent plating of specified surfaces, like edges of disk
- Hang disk in tanks containing plating solutions, like nickel copper or inserts disk over centering pin of automatic plating tanks to form negative metal master matrix of disk
- Observe dials and gauges to make sure solutions electric current flowing through solutions conform to specifications, and adjusts controls as required
- Remove plated disk from tanks after specified time, removes masking ring, washes and dries disk, and routes disk to finishing department for stripping finishing process by Matrix Worker recording
- Wash master matrix after finishing process to prevent adhesion during subsequent plating processes
- Plate master matrix to form mother matrix plates mother to form stamper used on record presses, following prescribed plating procedures
- May prepare test plating solutions.
Matrix Supervisor Career Duties
- Supervise coordinates activities of workers engaged in electroplating, stripping, finishing, and inspecting metal phonograph record matrices
- Requisition processing materials, like chemicals, wiping cloths and polishing compounds
- Confer with workers representatives to resolve grievances
- Train workers in processing functions
- Perform duties as described under Supervisor any industry Master Title.
Matrix Worker Career Duties
- Perform any combination of following tasks involved in finishing inspecting metal phonograph matrices after electroplating processes
- Strip separates master, mother and stamper matrices, using handtools, files and knife
- Hold matrices against sanding belt or grinding wheel of bench grinder to remove burrs
- Punch center hole in stamper mother matrices, using punch press
- Fill offcenter holes with solder, using soldering iron or acetylene torch
- Steam cleans polishes matrices, using brushes, cloths, and polishing compounds
- Examine stamper matrices for defects, and weighs matrices to make sure conformance to standards, using scale
- Cuts flares edges of stamper matrices, using press
- Mark identifying information on master matrices, using scribe.
Mother Repairer Career Duties
- Repair metal phonograph record mother matrix
- Examine matrix to locate inspection markings that indicate defects, using microscope or magnifying glass
- Remove defects, like bubbles, dirt and particles of nickel in sound track grooves, using needles cloths moistened with solvents
- Wipe surface of matrix with cleaning solvent to remove inspection markings.