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Occupations | Controls automatic equipment to melt and cast lead into cylindrical billets, and extrude billets into wire for making bullets and cores used in small arms ammunition: Starts electric furnace, observes gauges, and turns rheostat to maintain specified temperature and pressure. Charges furnace with lead pigs and scrap of specified alloy, using conveyor and elevating platform. Skims dross from molten lead with skimming ladle. Turns wheel to adjust flow of molten lead into mold. Adjusts stroke of billet extractor mechanism, installs extruding dies, and regulates ram speed and flow of water coolant, using handtools. Threads extruded wire over pulleys into slug-forming machines or through guide pipes to be coiled in drums. Verifies wire size with snap gauges to ensure conformity to specifications. (references) |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 4C 4C 45 54 2D 43 41 53 54 49 4E 47 4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010100 00101101 01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U L L E T - C A S T I N G   O P E R A T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 004C 004C 0045 0054 002D 0043 0041 0053 0054 0049 004E 0047 004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365546463954153735535443484124950395235544952 |
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