[TheForge] Anvil repair workshop in NJ

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

  I assume you mean broken off at the waist.
I've seen a couple like that and mused about a repair procedure.
I heard an old smith say that strapping an anvil down hard, so it cant 
move,
promotes that break.
If it has a wrought or a cast body makes a difference for welding procedure.
If it's a smaller anvil, you might be able to find someone with a big 
hammer to forge a bottom for you.
Otherwise you will have to modify a found object, or just weld it to a 
heavy vertical shaft.
We are talking lots and lots  of hours grinding the fit up to mate as 
closely as possible and very deep Vs
to fill with arc welding...preheat, pein as you go ( gonna want a small 
air hammer), rotate constantly, etc.

On 10/14/2010 6:02 AM, 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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