Wad-compressor Operator-adjuster
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Operates battery of compressor machines and drying ovens to
press and dry cardboard-fiber and wood-flour slurry to form
filler wads for shotgun shells: Turns valves to fill compressor
jackets with slurry and to heat drying ovens. Starts feed tank
agitator, wad compressors, and conveyors.
Observes molded wads
emerging from compressor punches to detect concave tops
indicating fouled pucnh tip. Unbolts punch tube and cleans
accumulated slurry from tip, using compressed air or water.
Replaces bent or broken punches, tubes, knock-off fingers, and
transfer plates, using handtools. Weighs specified number of
dried wads from each batch of slurry on grain scale, and
compuets quantity of water needed to produce wads of specified
weight.
Measures thickness of wads, using dial gauge, and
adjusts spacing between top and bottom punches to change wad
thickness, uisng micrometers, feeler gauges, and precision gauge
blocks.
Washes accumulation of slurry from machine. May operate
and adjust battery of sttaionary pneumatic compressors that
press slurry into holed wads for further compressing into base
wads and be designated Base-Wad Operator-Adjuster (ordnance).
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Wad-Compressor Operator-Adjuster
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