New shop fume exhaust system

[readymix]

Just fired it up yesterday. Drawing 127 amps on high. The VFD lowered that down to 70 amps running at 44%. It flows a crazy amount of air drawing from 18 wild booths and a drop for the OA track cutter. Still need to finish the drops for the plasma table.
I'll get more pics today.

 

[bigjbear]

I'm guessing that's not at your house

 

[chevyfumes]

And I had nothing to do with the install!

 

[dremu]

And I had nothing to do with the install!

I saw the title and immediately thought "How does 'Fumes feel about being extracted?"

-- A

 

[readymix]

Nope not for "the" fumes.
More pics

 

[readymix]

Last one

 

[MrSchaeferPants]

What do you do and where do you work where you need so many separate stations and vacuum lines?

 

[readymix]

That is the welding portion of the school I volunteer at. Great place who's mission is to certify and place veterans of the US Armed Services into manufacturing careers.
Workshops For Warriors is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax-exempt organization.

Www.wfwusa.org

 

[MrSchaeferPants]

Sweet, we need that here But I see, school type environment, so all the safety, health stuff with individual welding stations.

 

[FOR MUD]

That is the welding portion of the school I volunteer at. Great place who's mission is to certify and place veterans of the US Armed Services into manufacturing careers.
Workshops For Warriors is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax-exempt organization.

Www.wfwusa.org

Looks like a good thing....But not a real world type of training in my opinion. From what I've been seeing most of the welding employment right now is from the oil industries (AKA pipeline) kinda work. Just heard the other day a welder is worth almost $300,000 a year in the field...Not in a cubical with a $300,000 ventilation system. I might be a 100% wrong about this, but it seems like they should be spending their money on real world training....Not only on top end training.

 

[readymix]

You might think that, but we have a 100% job placement rate. Know of any other school that has done that?

We have a huge maritime/shipbuilding industry here in San Diego and they are fighting each other and poaching our graduates off of each other. Both welding and machining.

The high end training and equipment is the least that our nations heroes deserve. Anything that will give them a leg up in getting a good stable career is worth it.