[TheForge] Anvil repair workshop in NJ

[Andrew Vida]

What do yo mean by "no base" exactly?  Do you mean no foot?

blakkpawss at yahoo.com wrote:
> What would you reccomend for an anvil that has no base?
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> 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.
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