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A professional who tends spotting machine that tapers ends of shuttle blocks. Responsibilities include:
* Places shuttle blocks in machine carriage.
* Moves carriage to force end of shuttle against spotting head that automatically shapes shuttle to specified contours.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines to assist spar-machine operator in making boat masts and transmission line crossarms. Responsibilities include:
* Raises one end of pole while spar-machine operator raises other, using electric hoist.
* Secures pole between tailstock and headstock of lathe by turning crank.
* Inspects pole, and marks top with tacks.
* Measures pole and saws pole to specified length.
* Locates and bores boltholes, using car-mounted drill press.
* Marks identifying data on end of spar, using crayon.
* Rolls poles to and from work area, using peavey.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends turning lathe that shapes furniture parts. Responsibilities include:
* Positions workpiece against stops on lathe carriage rests.
* Moves lever to drive tailstock and headstock centers into workpiece.
* Pushes lever to start spindle drive and move turning workpiece into turning centerhead of lathe to shape workpiece.
* Pulls lever to pull workpiece back from cutterhead and disengage drive clutch.
* Removes and inspects workpieces for smoothness and defects and places finished pieces onto cart.
* Discards defective pieces.
* Pushes cart of turned pieces to next operation.
* Sharpens blade, using whetstone.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with cutting a smooth surface on rough woodstock and reducing it to desired thickness by the action of rotating cutting tools mounted on a machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to shape ends of wooden parts to fit into sockets of implements, or into mortises of opposing wooden parts. Responsibilities include:
* Selects and installs cutting head, and adjusts knives, guides, and stops, according to size and shape of cuts to be made.
* Verifies distances of settings and size of stock, using rule and calipers.
* Clamps stock in feed-yoke or places stock on automatic fixture.
* Starts machine and turns handwheel to feed stock into cutting head.
* Withdraws stock when stop is reached.
* May be designated according to machine operated as double-end-chucking-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates routing machine with horizontal spindles to cut matching dovetail or rectangular tenon and mortise to form interlocking joints in end of woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Selects, installs, and spaces bits on spindles of machine according to width and number of cuts specified, using rule and wrench and following work ticket.
* Aligns jigs, guides, and stops to control depth and length of cut, using rule and wrench.
* Presses button to start machine, inserts stock against sideguide, and depresses pedal to force stock through bits to cut male portion of dovetail.
* Inserts stock against sideguide and between clamps to cut female dovetail.
* Fits male and female dovetails together periodically to verify accuracy of cuts, and aligns guides when dovetails do not fit, using wrench.
* May be designated according to type of joint made as dovetail-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates multiple-spindle carving machine to make identical carvings simultaneously on pieces of wooden stock. Responsibilities include:
* Examines pattern, stock, and drawings, blueprints, or written instructions to determine knives needed to reproduce pattern on stock to be carved and number of pieces of carved stock needed.
* Selects, inserts, and locks bits in chuck of cutter spindles, using wrenches.
* Centers wood blanks between chucks on machine bed and secures blanks by turning handscrews or using wrenches.
* Inserts and locks tracer point in master chuck by turning thumbscrew or lock key.
* Presses starter buttons to activate cutter spindles to be used.
* Holds master spindle and moves tracing point over and around contours of pattern to reproduce pattern, as carvings, on blanks.
* Moves mechanism that turns blanks and pattern for carving on sides or for carving rounded objects, such as chair legs.
* Removes bits and tracing points after rough cuts are made and installs finish-cutting bits and point to complete carvings, using wrenches.
* May verify accuracy of carvings against specifications, using caliper, rule, or template.
* May blow carving chips and dust from carved blanks during carving process, using airhose, to ensure blanks are being cut according to pattern.
* May sharpen bits, using bench grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates multiple-head mortiser machine to cut mortise slots in woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Selects and installs mortising chisels (cutterheads) or mortise chain saw assembly, according to number and size of mortises to be cut.
* Turns handcrank or knobs to adjust spacing of cutterheads according to specifications of work order.
* Lays out and marks cuts to be made on stock, using rule and pencil, or places pattern on machine bed and measures distance between slots in pattern to determine location of mortiser heads.
* Clamps stock to machine table and adjusts machine table or cutting head for depth of cut.
* Presses button to start machine and presses pedal to force cutting head into woodstock.
* Verifies location and depth of mortises, using rule and caliper.
* May be designated according to type of cutting head used as chain-mortiser operator; chisel-mortiser operator.
* May set up and operate machine that automatically spaces and cuts mortises in stiles for insertion of slats to form louvered doors and windows and be designated louver-mortiser operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates planing machine to surface planks and timbers and reduce stock to specified dimensions. Responsibilities include:
* Installs cutting heads on machine drive spindles and adjusts blade exposure according to specified depth of cut, using wrenches and gauges.
* Adjusts feed roll tension and positions fences that guide stock between cutterheads.
* Starts machine, exhaust blower, and conveyors, and slides timber against guide to align timber on feed rolls.
* Verifies dimensions of sized stock, using gauge or rule.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates planing machine to surface planks and timbers and reduce stock to specified dimensions. Responsibilities include:
* Installs cutting heads on machine drive spindles and adjusts blade exposure according to specified depth of cut, using wrenches and gauges.
* Adjusts feed roll tension and positions fences that guide stock between cutterheads.
* Starts machine, exhaust blower, and conveyors, and slides timber against guide to align timber on feed rolls.
* Verifies dimensions of sized stock, using gauge or rule.
Industry:Professional careers
