[TheForge] Anvil repair workshop in NJ

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
>   Be extremely reluctant to weld on an anvil that has any life left in it.
> Many functional anvils have been ruined that way.
> The HAZ from any welding bead ruins the temper and grain structure of 
> the adjacent face.
> In the long run, most welded-on anvils will catastrophically fail under use.

	WILL?  Might fail.  Example: my 124# mouse was the guinea pig for the 
NJBA event.  Marshall laid in  beads of several different compositions 
so we could determine which we liked best.  That was about 13 years ago 
and I've worked that anvil much.  It spent at least 2 years in the shop 
at Allaire with all manner of newbies doing all manner of horribly 
unsound things to it.  There is precisely ONE small ding in the edge and 
that was my doing when a rather strong blow went errant.

	If the job is done correctly, and we've rebuilt probably 100 or more by 
this time (Bruce?), the anvil will be left in better than new condition. 
  We preheat them carefully, even when rod mfr. says it is  not 
necessary, grind out all the edges deeply - chasing cracks pretty far 
into the face, lay the wire in properly, and then grind them (my job, 
mainly) to form.  I have yet to hear of a single failure in any of our 
jobs.  Of course, I'm now in WV and may be somewhat out of that loop. 
I"m thinking I may have to be present for the coming event.