[TheForge] Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Gee Luke; Just use the poor thing!
Going for perfection at this point isn't worthwhile.
When you are an old guy with a beer belly who never misses a 
hammer stroke, then look for a perfect anvil....Pete F

Luke Thomson wrote:
> Yeah, the anvil was completely preheated to 375 degrees in some oven that a
> car mechanics shop donated to the school. After welding I put the anvil 
> back
> in the forge and left it over night (it was still to warm to the rest your
> hand on 20 hours later) The cracks formed almost immediately though. you
> could see the cracks within a few minutes and i'm not sure how deep they
> are.. after welding the first time i used a 7 inch grinder to remove all 
> the
> bumps and even everything out pretty close and then used our bridgeport 
> with
> a fly cutter to make everything absolutely level (except the revealed low
> spots which the Stoody was supposed to fill). I did everything the same 
> with
> the Ranite rod and it didn't crack so maybe I just got lucky the first 
> time.
> I guess my dilemna now is to spend the money and get it ground down the
> quarter inch over the whole anvil, wait until school starts and get back to
> work grinding and cutting which will also mean welding some more, or just
> settle my losses and sell the anvil to a guy in town who said he'd buy it
> for 350. I've only put 300 and some sweat into it so far but would really
> like the mass under my hammer. Not to mention a good part of me wants
> to finish the darned thing just to keep my chin up.
> 
> Well Matt wasn't home when I called on Monday so I'll have to wait until
> after Creation (huge concert)  before I call again and get those temp.
> ratings
> 
> Luke
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