Career Details :: Metal-Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Operators and Tenders
Description
Operate or tend metal-molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal products, such as pipes, brake drums, and rods, and metal parts, such as automobile trim, carburetor housings, and motor parts. Machines include centrifugal casting machines, vacuum casting machines, turnover draw-type coremaking machines, conveyor-screw coremaking machines, and die casting machines.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Repairs or replaces damaged molds, pipes, belts, chains, or other equipment, using hand tools, hand-powered press, or jib crane.
- Removes casting from mold, mold from press, or core from core box, using tongs, pliers, hydraulic ram, or by inversion.
- Pours or loads metal or sand into melting pot, furnace, mold, core box, or hopper, using shovel, ladle, or machine.
- Smoothes and cleans inner surface of mold, using brush, scraper, air hose, or grinding wheel, and fills imperfections with refractory material.
- Fills core boxes and mold patterns with sand or powders, using ramming tools or pneumatic hammers, and removes excess.
- Sprays, smokes, or coats molds with compounds to lubricate or insulate mold, using acetylene torches or sprayers.
- Positions, aligns, and secures molds or core boxes in holding devices or under pouring spouts and tubes, using hand tools.
- Cuts spouts and pouring holes in molds and sizes hardened cores, using saws.
- Requisitions molds and supplies and inventories and records finished products.
- Observes and records data from pyrometers, lights, and gauges to monitor molding process and adjust furnace temperature.
- Signals or directs other workers to load conveyor, spray molds, or remove ingots.
- Positions ladles or pourers and adjusts controls to regulate the flow of metal, sand, or coolant into mold.
- Assembles shell halves, patterns, and foundry flasks, and reinforces core boxes, using glue, clamps, wire, bolts, rams, or machines.
- Skims or pours dross, slag, or impurities from molten metal, using ladle, rake, hoe, spatula, or spoon.
- Weighs metals and powders and computes amounts of materials necessary to produce mixture of specified content.
- Inspects metal casts and molds for cracks, bubbles, or other defects and measures castings to ensure specifications met.
- Starts and operates furnace, oven, die-casting, core-making, metal-molding, or rotating machines to pour metal or create molds and casts.
- Cleans, glues, and racks cores, ingots, or finished products for storage.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Degree of Automation
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Standing
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