[TheForge] Re: Power hammer questions

Fri Mar 28 13:00:02 2003

The 55 LB H.F. ASOs that I have seen are porous and they do not have the
necessary tool steel plate that a good cast anvil has.
Darrell

http://www.machinemaster.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Power hammer questions

> hmmm I always thought that any cast iron anvil was refered to as an ASO or
> anvil shaped object and that real anvils were wrought bodies or cast
steel,
> guess I was wrong huh
>
> PS
>  what makes those chinese ASO's so useless then?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: 28 March, 2003 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Power hammer questions
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Power hammer questions
> >
> >
> > > Wouldnt a cast iron anvil be a bit weak on the rebound? or did you
mean
> > cast
> > > steel?
> > >
> >
> > Nope. I meant cast iron, it's what they were all made of. Not the
> > face/tooling of course but the bodies were all cast iron. Look how many
> high
> > quality anvils out there have cast or wrought bodies with a steel face.
My
> > Sodofors is steel on cast and rebounds as well or better than any anvil
> out
> > there.
> >
> > Frosty
> > ------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
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