[TheForge] (no subject) Hardy Insert

[Adam Whiteson]

This is exactly what I did.   My "new"  Hay Budden has  a 1 3/8" hardy 
which I cannot find in any standard stock.  After drawing out a piece of 1 
1/2"  A36 down to size by hand I decided once was enough.

I made my insert out of mild steel.  It is not a tube but rather it has 
"fingers" that line the sides of the hardy hole.  The fingers are slightly 
too thin but they are bowed for a springy grip.  This works well for me

Now all my hardy tools with 1" stems just drop right in.

I can imagine a case where bending a piece of cold stock in a hardy fork 
might require a bigger,  but for most of the things that I can do with a 
handheld hammer,  1" is plenty strong.

I believe Rob Gunter uses inserts to standardize all his anvils on one size 
of hardy tool.  His inserts were just a thin piece of angle iron with a lip 
forged on one end to stop it slipping down into the hole.

Adam


At 11:42 AM 12/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I have just installed my new old anvil and am
>chagrinned that the hardie hole is 1.25" rather than
>the 1.0" hole I have in my Peter Wright. Is it
>reasonable to make an adapter so I don't have to make
>all my hardie tools over again? If so, any suggestions
>would be appreciated.
>
>Frederick Faller
>
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