tumbling machine operator
Tumbling machine operators set up and operate tumbling machines, often wet or drie tumbling barrels, designed to remove excess material and burrs of heavy metal workpieces and precious metals and to improve surface appearance, by rotating the metal pieces in a barrel together with grit and potentially water, allowing for the friction between the pieces mutually and with the grit to cause a rounding, smooth effect.
Also called: production washer, production machine washer, deflash and wash operative, machine washing operative, washing machine operator, deflash and wash operator, precipitate machine washer, tub washer
- 17
- essential skills
- 16
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
17- ensure equipment availability
- monitor automated machines
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- perform test run
- quality and cycle time optimisation
- quality standards
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- smooth burred surfaces
- spot metal imperfections
- supply machine
- tend tumbling machine
- troubleshoot
- tumbling machine parts
- types of lubricants
- types of metal
- wear appropriate protective gear
Optional skills
16- advise on machinery malfunctions
- characteristics of precious metals
- dry tumbling
- ferrous metal processing
- inspect quality of products
- keep records of work progress
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- measure flatness of a surface
- metal smoothing technologies
- perform machine maintenance
- precious metal processing
- processes performed by tumbling
- record production data for quality control
- types of metal manufacturing processes
- wet tumbling
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