[TheForge] Anvil with no base (was: Anvil repair workshop in NJ)

[Bruce Freeman]

Is this clearly a broken anvil?  "Anvil w/o base" conjures up an image
of a bick.

If it's a relatively small anvil (like 50 lb or less as is, w/o base),
you might just weld on a bar as a "base" and turn it into a bick.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:02 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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Bruce
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