How do they match: Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

  • Clean and maintain equipment, using water hoses and scrapers.
  • Clean workpieces, using wire brushes.
  • Immerse objects to be coated or plated into cleaning solutions, or spray objects with conductive solutions to prepare them for plating.
  • Operate sandblasting equipment to roughen and clean surfaces of workpieces.
  • Perform equipment maintenance, such as cleaning tanks and lubricating moving parts of conveyors.
  • Place plated or coated materials on racks and transfer them to ovens to dry for specified periods of time.
  • Rinse coated objects in cleansing liquids and dry them with cloths, centrifugal driers, or by tumbling in sawdust-filled barrels.

  • Clean production equipment.
  • Clean workpieces or finished products.
  • Immerse objects or workpieces in cleaning or coating solutions.