TIN RECOVERY WORKER

  

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TIN RECOVERY WORKER

Specialty Definition: TIN RECOVERY WORKER

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Occupations

Controls scruff and burn-off furnaces and auxiliary equipment to reclaim tin or terne from coating pots, tinplate, and used electrolytic anodes: 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. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TIN RECOVERY WORKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 49 4E      52 45 43 4F 56 45 52 59      57 4F 52 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0049 004E      0052 0045 0043 004F 0056 0045 0052 0059      0057 004F 0052 004B 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544348252393749563952592574952453952

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