Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Measure and examine extruded products to locate defects and to check for conformance to specifications, adjusting controls as necessary to alter products.
2. 02Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, and temperature, and to synchronize speed of extrusion.
3. 03Determine setup procedures and select machine dies and parts, according to specifications.
4. 04Troubleshoot, maintain, and make minor repairs to equipment.
5. 05Change dies on extruding machines, according to production line changes.
6. 06Replace worn dies when products vary from specifications.
7. 07Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths and weights.
8. 08Weigh and mix pelletized, granular, or powdered thermoplastic materials and coloring pigments.
9. 09Select nozzles, spacers, and wire guides, according to diameters and lengths of rods.
10. 10Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
11. 11Clean work areas.
12. 12Adjust controls to draw or press metal into specified shapes and diameters.

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