How do they match: Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons

  • Plastic Block Boiler Reliner

  • Drill holes in furnace walls, bolt overlapping layers of plastic to walls, and hammer surfaces to compress layers into solid sheets.
  • Install clay structures in melting tanks and drawing kilns to control the flow and temperature of molten glass, using hoists and hand tools.
  • Install preformed metal scaffolding in interiors of cupolas, using hand tools.
  • Measure furnace walls to determine dimensions and cut required number of sheets from plastic block, using saws.
  • Reline or repair ladles and pouring spouts with refractory clay, using trowels.
  • Remove worn or damaged plastic block refractory linings of furnaces, using hand tools.
  • Spread mortar on stopper heads and rods, using trowels, and slide brick sleeves over rods to form refractory jackets.