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Shell-Mold-Bonding-Machine Operator

DOT Code: 518.685-030

Industry: foundry
Alternate Titles: bonder; bonding-machine operator; shell mold bonder

Tends machine that bonds cope and drag together to form completed shell mold: Turns dials of shell-mold bonding machine to heat upper pressure plate and set pressure stroke of ram as specified. Positions drag onto lower pressure plate of machine. Fills vibrator pan with bonding agent, and pushes button to sift bonding agent onto edge of drag. Positions cope on drag, and pushes button or pulls lever which pushes hot plate onto cope to heat and compress cope to drag. Knocks out sprue holes with iron rod. Directs 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 and cope.

GOE: 06.04.08 STRENGTH: M GED: R2 M1 L1 SVP: 2 DLU: 77