[TheForge] chinese ASOs

Fri Mar 28 14:09:02 2003

Jerry,

I don't understand the quench/ temper part.??

dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: [TheForge] chinese ASOs

> Something I've contemplated and will try one of these days is putting a
> steel face on a cast iron chinese junk anvil.
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to do:
>
> Grind the existing face smooth and make a matching steel plate.
>
> Build a heavy steel stand to hold the anvil upside down a foot or so off
the
> ground.
>
> Put the steel plate on the stand, flux it, lay either brazing rod or a
thin
> sheet of brass on it, flux it and lay the anvil upside down on it.
>
> True it all up and build a big fire under and around it.
>
> Watch closely when it starts hitting bright red. When you see brass
running
> out of the joint rake the fire away and extinguish.
>
> After the braze is cool enough to hold, flip the anvil over and start the
> quench/temper.
>
> It's a thought anyway. <grin>
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phlip" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Power hammer questions
>
>
> >
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > A friend of mine just dropped off a 55 lb HF cast steel, and it looks
OK.
> > I'll likely hafta work on the horn to round it more- it's pretty flat-
but
> > it looks like it will be ideal for my purposes, which is to basicly have
> > small, light anvils I can take with me to SCA events, and let them have
> > something to pound on.
> >
> > Think I'll likely buy a couple.
> >
> > Phlip
> >
> >  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> > cat.
> >
> > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> >
> >
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