[TheForge] Re: Anvils

[David E. Smucker]

Interesting -- I have never heard of an anvil made part out of aluminum 
(wonder metal) and steel.  Not sure why other than if is for ease of 
movement.  From my view point aluminum has neither the mass nor stiffness 
required for a really good anvil.  But from what you say with a steel face 
and  has good rebound.  Is the horn steel or aluminum ?  Some of the 
aerospace alloys have lots of strength but bounding them to steel is not 
easy.  It can be done as either a friction weld or rolling mill forge weld. 
(Maybe explosive too but I have never seen that my self.)  If I was going to 
try to make a composite aluminum steel anvil I would first roll bond 
(rolling mill forge weld) steel to an aluminum substrate and then weld the 
aluminum to the rest of the anvil.   How was this one was made?  Cast 
aluminum base into a dovetailed steel face?

In Alcoa we used to call aluminum the wonder metal -- "I wonder what it is 
good for besides beer cans and airplanes?"  But hey, they pay my pension. 
And yes it has many many other good uses.

Dave Smucker
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:18 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Anvils


> Another thing about my anvil. When I got it, the horn had a real sharp 
> point
> on it and walking around it would sometimes catch my leg and leave a 
> nasty
> little cut on it. I ground about a half inch off of it, and it quit 
> biting
> me. I have a Delta Future 2. Half steel  and half Aluminum. Very  little 
> ring
> and a face that if you miss you had better be moving head out of the  way. 
> It
> weighs 100  pounds but has the size of most 150 to 200  pounders.
>
> Later Ike
> Pan's Forge
>
> But I love  the heat. Just want it from the Forge. 4 seasons for me  now.
>
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