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WAX POURER

Specialty Definition: WAX POURER

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Tends equipment that melts and pours paraffin into cardboard tubes in manufacture of signal flares: Scans invoice to determine number of flares required. Climbs ladder and dumps paraffin blocks into vat and activates heating element to melt paraffin. Observes temperature gauge to determine when melting point is reached and looks into vat to verify liquid condition of paraffin. Turns valve to allow gravity-fed liquid paraffin to flow into pressure vat. Adjusts pressure vat controls to prescribed setting and flips switch to activate heating element. Places flare tube in rack with open end up and examines closed end for openings. Squeezes sealant into tubes to seal defective closed ends. Positions racked tubes under spout and depresses treadle to fill tubes with specified amount of paraffin. Advances each row of tubes under spout until all tubes are filled with paraffin. Carries racked tubes to next work station. Scrapes paraffin residue from worktable, using scraper. Maintains production records. (references)

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

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Anagrams: WAX POURER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-o-p-r-r-u-w-x"

-3 letters: parure, pourer, prewar, prowar, prower, repour, rewrap, uprear, uproar, warper.

-4 letters: arrow, opera, pareo, parer, pareu, pawer, power, purer, raper, rawer, repro, rewax, roper, rower, urare, waxer.

-5 letters: aero, aper, apex, eaux, euro, expo, orra, pare, parr, pear, pore, pour, prao, prau, prex, proa, prow, pure, purr, rape, rare, reap, rear, repo, roar.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WAX POURER


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

57 41 58      50 4F 55 52 45 52

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

    

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

01010111 01000001 01011000 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010101 01010010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#88 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0058      0050 004F 0055 0052 0045 0052

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

5735582504955523952

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