[TheForge] chinese ASOs

Fri Mar 28 15:45:00 2003

Seems to me ( whadaino ), the heat required to effect change  would un-braze
the
steel plate.?
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 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] chinese ASOs


> Basically anvils are such a large mass of metal they can't be heat treated
> like say a blade, hammer head, etc. Typically the anvil would be taken
from
> the forge / furnace and partially quenched, letting the residual heat from
> the body soak(?) back out and temper the face.
>
> There were a couple "traditional" ways to quench/temper anvils that I know
> of. Probably the most common was to suspend the hot anvil upside down in a
> large pond, creek, etc. The other way I know of was to direct a measured
> amount of water over a measured amount of time onto the face of the anvil.
>
> From what I've been told the second method is how Sodorfors heat treated
> their anvils. They had large water tanks with orifices sized for specific
> weights of anvils. The tanks were filled to a mark for a given anvil
weight
> and the valve opened. When the tank ran dry the anvil was quenched and
> tempered.
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tull" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] chinese ASOs
>
>
> > 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
> > >
> > > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- 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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