Salem Community College
 

Glass Education Center

460 Hollywood Avenue, Carneys Point, NJ 08069 (parking lot A)
P: 856.351.2234
E: gec@salemcc.edu

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Inside GEC
Inside GEC
Inside GEC

FLAMEWORKING STUDIOS

  • 2 Complete flameworking classrooms, each with 20 student workstations and 1 instructor station each; 42 flameworking benches in all!
  • 40 Carlisle CC torches, 2 Herbert Arnold torches and 42 hand torches
  • 6 flameworking lathes and associated torches for each lathe
  • 3 Skutt Scarab kilns
  • 2 large Wilt bell kilns
  • Small Wilt bell kiln
  • Pistorius diamond saw
  • 42 parallel bench rollers
  • 2 Polariscopes
  • Mobile plasma manifold
  • Assorted hand tools
FLAMEWORKING STUDIOS

GLASSBLOWING STUDIO

  • 2 tank furnaces for soda-lime glass, 400 lb capacity
  • 1 double pot furnace with 160 lb total capacity
  • 3 Glory holes with rolling yolk and heat shield, 12” diameter
  • 1 Glory hole with rolling yolk and heat shield, 18” diameter
  • 4 padded benches with tool tables
  • 2 color boxes with annealing capacity, 1.5 cu ft each
  • 6 annealing ovens with 2 shelves ea, 27 cu ft capacity
  • 2 pipe warmers 18” ea
  • Overflow pipe cooler
  • 2 propane bench torches
  • Oxy-propane hand torches
  • Garage, 5 cu ft capacity with forks and pan
  • Pipe hanger
  • Knock off station
  • 2 pasterelli forks and plates
  • 4 sets of shaping blocks
  • 4 sets of hand tools
  • 30 Spiral Arts blowpipes and punties
  • 25 bit rods
  • 4 optic molds
  • Cane marver
  • Casting ladles
GLASSBLOWING STUDIO

COLD WORKING STUDIO

  • Diamond saw, 14” blade
  • Diamond saw 8” blade
  • 3 Gemini Tarus 3 Ring Saws
  • Covington double ended grinding lathe
  • 4000GL Covington Lathe
  • 2 radius wheel sets, 4” diameter
  • “V” wheel set
  • 2 Belt sanders
  • 2 water cooled diamond lap wheels
  • Diamond hand pads
  • Hand lapping grit
  • Ikonics Imagery sandblast resist kit
  • Wazer Water Jet Cutter 
  • UV glue curing lights
  • 2 Fordom flex-shaft grinders
  • Sandblast cabinet
  • Rociprolap
  • Angle grinder
COLD WORKING STUDIO

KILN WORKING STUDIO

  • 1 Gas fired kiln, 26 cu ft capacity
  • 1 Electric kiln, 26 cu ft capacity
  • 1 Electric kiln, 14.5 cu ft capacity
  • 3 Electric kilns, 3 cu ft capacity
  • 2 Skutt GM22CS kilns
  • 2 Jen Ken kilns
  • 2 wax melting stations
  • 2 steaming stations
  • 4 mold fabrication stations
KILN WORKING STUDIO

FABRICATION STUDIO

  • Hobart 210MVP Welder
  • Millermatic 251 Welder
  • Millermatic 255 Welder coming Fall 2019!
  • Welding Helmets
  • Dewalt chop saw
  • Rycon 18” vertical bandsaw
  • Semiautomatic metal cutting horizontal bandsaw
  • 12 speed Enco drill press
  • 10 in. Heavy-Duty Portable Table Saw with Stand
  • Assortment of handheld power tools
FABRICATION STUDIO

PHOTOGRAPHY/COMPUTER LAB

  • Dedicated space for student photography
  • Cannon EOS Rebel T6 camera and tripod
  • 2 Fotodiox Pro LED 3 light kits
  • Assorted backgrounds
  • 6 Computer stations with software for photo editing, 2D and 3D rending, and Microsoft Office
  • LulzBot TAZ 3D printer
  • Stencil/Vinyl Cutter
PHOTOGRAPHY/COMPUTER LAB

DIGITAL FABRICATION

  • LulzBot TAZ 3D printer
  • I2R-8 UCCNC Router
  • Thunder Laser Nova 35
  • Arclight Dynamics CNC Plasma Cutter
  • Wazer Water Jet Cutter
DIGITAL FABRICATION