Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

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

1. 01Position objects to be plated in frames, or suspend them from positive or negative terminals of power supplies.
2. 02Place plated or coated materials on racks and transfer them to ovens to dry for specified periods of time.
3. 03Monitor and measure thicknesses of electroplating on component parts to verify conformance to specifications, using micrometers.
4. 04Operate hoists to place workpieces onto machine feed carriages or spindles.
5. 05Adjust controls to set temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
6. 06Suspend sticks or pieces of plating metal from anodes, or positive terminals, and immerse metal in plating solutions.
7. 07Remove excess materials or impurities from objects, using air hoses or grinding machines.
8. 08Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.
9. 09Rinse coated objects in cleansing liquids and dry them with cloths, centrifugal driers, or by tumbling in sawdust-filled barrels.
10. 10Immerse objects to be coated or plated into cleaning solutions, or spray objects with conductive solutions to prepare them for plating.
11. 11Remove objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observe objects to verify conformance to specifications.
12. 12Measure and set stops, rolls, brushes, and guides on automatic feeders and conveying equipment or coating machines, using micrometers, rules, and hand tools.

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