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tin recovery worker

A professional who controls scruff and burn-off furnaces and auxiliary equipment to reclaim tin or terne from coating pots, tinplate, and used electrolytic anodes. Respnsibilities include:

  • Washes scruff with hose to remove flux.
  • Starts crushing machine, and shovels scruff into machine to reduce scruff to uniform size.
  • Charges scruff into furnace, and ignites gas burner with torch.
  • Adjusts heat controls to obtain specified temperature for reclaiming metal from scruff.
  • Breaks up lumps in scruff, using rake and hoe.
  • Turns valves to tap furnace and allow reclaimed metal to flow into iron kettle or melting pot.
  • Heats kettle, and skims foreign metal from top, using ladle.
  • Adds specified amounts of tin or lead in producing terne.
  • Pours metal into pig or electrolytic anode molds.
  • Weighs and records amount of recovered metal.
  • Marks weight on pigs, and stores pigs in warehouse.
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  • (United States of America)

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