A professional who tends machine equipped with multiple stations that solders typewriter type to type bars. Responsibilities include:

• Clamps type bar and segment-assembly to holding plate of machine.
• Selects type in designated sequence and positions type between guides, or in matrix plate on machine table.
• Pulls down first type bar with fingers and seats end of bar in back slot of type.
• Pushes table or depresses treadle that moves assembly to next station where flux, solder, and coolant air are automatically applied.
• May apply flux to back slot, using tweezers.
• May adjust guides for different styles of type, using size blocks and turning setscrews.
• May remove excess solder to prevent type from binding in type guide, using pencil-flame gas torch and brush or file.