The New UA Local 72 Welding School

[regularfella]

Here is the new UA Welding school we've been working on. I'm one of the apprentice's that's been working on this school. The first pic is of one row of booths.

[regularfella]

20 more booths that we'll have completed soon

[regularfella]

Here's a pic of our coupon cutter from Watts; Dave the owner, provided excellent product support, he's a great guy. I'll try to post up some pics of what this machine is capable of soon.

http://www.watts-specialties.com/

[regularfella]

This is how we set up each booth. Yes, we had our friends from IBEW 613 hard-wire the grinder motors. That's a Lincoln Electric fume extractor arm in the top of the pic

[Sparky#1]

Wow somebody spent some money,good now some more young qualified weldors can keep the torch lit(Union Hopefully). Qualified tradesman in general are in short supply. My father retired in '02(Sparky like myself) The I.O sent him a letter asking if he wanted to come back because their was a shortage. He respectfully said no.:laugh:

[regularfella]

I got several more pics today. Here are the gas mixing set-ups using 1/2" OD SS tubing. This was also ran into a few of the interior rooms including the Orbital room

[regularfella]

Here's a booth from the mezzanine looking down on the 1st 2 rows of booths. Those are Miller 280's and Lincoln V275's wired for 3 phase should it be necessary

[regularfella]

Here's an incredible saw

[regularfella]

2 pics of the Lincoln Electric fume extraction equipment. They're extremely quiet & state of the art. The structural fab work and the sheet-metal work was handled by Mckenney's

http://www.mckenneys.com/

[regularfella]

The tank farm

[regularfella]

Another pipe cutting set up using Watts equipment and Lincoln Pro-Cut 80's. Couldn't get both in the pic however

[DSW]

I like the gas panel. Very professional.

I was looking at the pict of the booth. I see two flow meters but can't tell if they are from one line or 2.

[regularfella]

Thanks for the kind words DSW. We've put a lot of effort into this school. That flow meter is fed from a single 1/2" OD SS line.

[DSW]

I'll take it then that all the units on that line have to run the same gas.

Hmm... Our school had lines run in each booth for air to run the plasma (as well as an outlet), CO2, 100% argon, and 75/25. Any booth could be used for mig, while another nextdoor used FC and the 3rd tig.

Just a different way of do the instruction I guess. If the whole class or even 1/2 does the same thing it shouldn't matter.

[regularfella]

Here's a pic that shows one of the 6 end grinder/ vice-grip stations we've attached to a welding table to aid in coupon prep. The grinders are hard-wired to the table and the table is fed using a single heavy gauge cable.

[want to be a welder]

where is this new school at?

[regularfella]

where is this new school at?

1445 Trae Lane
Lithia Springs, Ga
30122

Tel# 678-486-7600

I'll get more pics up tomorrow.

[Passenger]

Pics of orbital room?:cool2:

[regularfella]

Pics of orbital room?:cool2:

Glad you asked; they'll be up later today

[BNF]

why are the grinders hard wired, to prevent them from walking off?

[regularfella]

why are the grinders hard wired, to prevent them from walking off?

Not so much walking off but to keep them in the booth so we don't have tools scattered all around the shop.

[regularfella]

Here are some pics of the welding stands from Comp Fab Inc.

[regularfella]

Here are pics of the structural steel and the sheet-metal work from our friends at McKenney's
Mechanical

http://www.mckenneys.com/

[regularfella]

Here's are a few pics of the Orbital/Clean room; more to follow next week

[regularfella]

Another pic that includes both of the Watts/Lincoln cutting stations

[Supe]

Gorgeous shop, though I'm not a fan of those adjustable pipe stands. The clamp arm and rest at the bottom clearly create a restriction and I'd hate to be the one to have to change out those grinders (though I understand the "sprouting legs" principle), but the rest of it is top notch.

[regularfella]

Thanks for the compliment. These are the Dewalt's with the "steel" gears as opposed to those found at the big box stores. (You just have to hold one of each to feel the difference in weight.) Those grinders won't often replacement. When they do; we just call our friends at IBEW 613. The stands have actually been a big hit.

http://www.ibew613.org/

[W55]

nice welding shop i belong to ua local 56 in halifax, NS Canada

[WHughes]

Top notch shop.
Hello from UA Local 598

[regularfella]

Thanks for the compliments my UA Brothers. You'll be welcome to come on in should you find yourself in Ga. We've had a few travelers come in already

[Powerstroked]

That's a top notch looking school guys. Great work!

[tigmusky]

looks great. 417 ua brother


Daye

[regularfella]

Thanks much for the compliments. Last day is tomorrow and I'm bummed but have a great job to get to on Monday. Tomorrow's the Grand Opening..... live music, grilling much food, reps from ESAB, Lincoln, Miller, Georgia's Gov. Sonny Perdue, and much more. I'll post pics up if I remember to bring my camera-haha. we also have the guy who's competing in the VICA competition representing America & Canada and I'll post up pics of his welding practice/projects

[Powerstroked]

Thanks much for the compliments. Last day is tomorrow and I'm bummed but have a great job to get to on Monday. Tomorrow's the Grand Opening..... live music, grilling much food, reps from ESAB, Lincoln, Miller, Georgia's Gov. Sonny Perdue, and much more. I'll post pics up if I remember to bring my camera-haha. we also have the guy who's competing in the VICA competition representing America & Canada and I'll post up pics of his welding practice/projects

You better remember to bring that camera!!:p

[Passenger]

More pics of the orbital room:waving:

[cmpipeliner]

My local 798 pipeliners just finished their plans for a new training center, and I hope it's just half as nice as that place. I learned almost everything through the school of unpaid, at lunch, and I hate being a helper school! It's great to see the locals out there upgrading all their equipment to meet the needs of a new high tech world!

[Turbot-bird]

IBEW 1412 here

[regularfella]

You better remember to bring that camera!!:p

Didn't remember the camera. My apologies; not sure if I would have had time to take pics anyway. You should keep an eye on your AWS Welding Journal and possibly your UA journal for pics however and maybe I can get someone to e-mail me. It was truly a privilege to have worked on that job.

[pipehack]

Excellent... Plumbers Local 130... Yeah I know I'm a plumber.. Still U.A. Here's a picture of Don "The Snake" Prudhome and me. I hope I spelled his last name right.. This was at the Route 66 nationals in Joliet Illinois.

[pipehack]

Local 597 "virtual welding" trailer at the Route 66 Nationals...

[regularfella]

Thanks for the posts Pipehack, don't apologize for being a plumber my brother. Cool pics and hopefully he doesn't get virtual spatter on those un-gloved little hands-LOL

[pipehack]

You should have seen the line of people to try these out...

[aevald]

Awesome pipe clamping units, simple and versatile. Best regards, Allan

[Precision Welding]

What kind of Orbital machines are you guys using?

[Tony D]

That is a very nice school ...but how to change discs on the grinders go shut down their booth or just don't hit the button while doing the changes..always unplug your grinder or other power tools before changing tooling HMMMM for a school that's bad teaching could of used stainless leashes or something, maybe they change out before firing up the booths for the day but someone has gotta need one at some point.... other than that wow that place is beautiful

[WHughes]

Looks like there is a switch on the electrical box the grinders are wired into. We have Watts machines at our shop as well, but they arent that pretty.

[regularfella]

Looks like there is a switch on the electrical box the grinders are wired into. We have Watts machines at our shop as well, but they arent that pretty.

Correct, they're wired to the switch. Grinding rock changes are drama free

[six]

Wow! Nice place. Just imagine. Working somewhere everything is clean, new and works.

[regularfella]

I stopped by this evening and took a couple pics of new things I noticed. Sorry for the quality of the pics. The lighting was weird. A couple of Dynasty 350's and a very nice Lincoln MIG machine. I'm sure there's more but I wanted to get in the welding booth and get a coupon welded out!

[WeldingMachine]

Wow, looks like a great place to learn. I'm impressed!

[justinT]

Very nice school. Why would you hardwire the grinders in? They seemed to burn up monthly at our school.

[aevald]

Hello Justin, just a suspicion here. They are a lot less likely to grow legs and walk out the door. Best regards, Allan

[brucer]

nice looking school. looks top notch.
that classroom deserves to have an excellent instructor

[build it]

Congrats. To who ever designed this lab looks great and very practical, wish my labs had been like that, good job guys

[wfochris]

Wow. I'm googling for local community colleges around here to take a night class to learn how to make two pieces of metal stick together, and I see this! Glad it's in Georgia- but wish it was in Alabama :)

[mjm09]

:cool2:That's an awesome welding school. Nothing like brand new euipment and clean/organized work place. :cool2:

[weldermike]

YOWZA! WHAT A SCHOOL! Best of luck with it!!! unbelievable job!

[Bgbkwndo]

Not so much walking off but to keep them in the booth so we don't have tools scattered all around the shop.

In my own home-based shop, I too change out the factory electric cords on my power tools. I put a short pigtail cord on, and never have to wind up the cord to store the tool;
just un-plug and onto the shelf. The plug I install is a "twist-lock", so connections stay
connected to my 20 foot extension cord. The third advantage to this method is that the neighbors no longer ask to borrow my "220-volt" tools!

Bgbkwndo.

[angus31632]

Thanks for posting picture bud yall must of had a make up day or something ive never seen the shop that clean during the week. You need to get a picture of the new beveling machine up here all these pipe guys would appreciate that. Thats my other home im driving up from damn near Florida in the morning to spend another 40 hours in there.

[audreyhudges]

This must be a big school that facilitate this huge equipments only for this class. This is good so that students will be familiarize with the tools found in here.