# Tasks & work activities — foundry moulder

Source: O*NET 30.3, occupation 51-4071.00 (Foundry Mold and Coremakers).

## Task statements

- **[Core]** Clean and smooth molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections.
- **[Core]** Move and position workpieces, such as mold sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signal others to move workpieces.
- **[Core]** Sprinkle or spray parting agents onto patterns and mold sections to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.
- **[Core]** Position patterns inside mold sections, and clamp sections together.
- **[Core]** Position cores into lower sections of molds, and reassemble molds for pouring.
- **[Core]** Sift and pack sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools.
- **[Core]** Cut spouts, runner holes, and sprue holes into molds.
- **[Core]** Lift upper mold sections from lower sections, and remove molded patterns.
- **[Core]** Form and assemble slab cores around patterns, and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.
- **[Supplemental]** Tend machines that bond cope and drag together to form completed shell molds.
- **[Supplemental]** Pour molten metal into molds, manually or with crane ladles.
- **[Supplemental]** Rotate sweep boards around spindles to make symmetrical molds for convex impressions.
- **[Supplemental]** Operate ovens or furnaces to bake cores or to melt, skim, and flux metal.

## Detailed work activities

- Apply parting agents or other solutions to molds.
- Build production molds.
- Clean production equipment.
- Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.
- Lift materials or workpieces using cranes or other lifting equipment.
- Operate heating or drying equipment.
- Place materials into molds.
- Position patterns on equipment, materials, or workpieces.
- Remove workpieces from molds.
- Signal others to coordinate work activities.
- Smooth metal surfaces or edges.