[TheForge] Fw: Anvil repair

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

  Forge welding a new face on an anvil of size, seems a daunting task.
Quenching a whole anvil  was traditionally done under a waterfall
or it's equivalent.
Arc welding a new face on with the necessary 100% penetration
is very ambitious.
Not casual stuff.
The problem with spot heat treating with a rosebud, is again the perimeter
of the treatment which will not harden sufficiently.

On 10/15/2010 7:29 AM, Jason Nass wrote:
> If you are going to heat treat an anvil face anyway, doesn't it make more
> sense just to reface it with a new plate? It just seems a lot easier to
> me... I could see maybe spot filling with electrode and then spot heat
> treating with a rosebud, but refacing with rod makes no sense to me...
>
> Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
> me at wargoth.com
>
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> On 10/14/2010 5:59 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>> Probably the most common mistake I see is folk using hard facing rod.
>>
>> If on the other hand you use build up rod like that used in rock
>> crushers all you need do is make sure to control the HAZ and heat
>> treat properly after it's all over. Build up rod is very much impact
>> resistant but will not get brittle and sticks to darned near anything.
>> It's intended to build up under hardfacing rod, there's a serious
>> limit to how many passes you can lay with hardfacing rod. One. We used
>> a bunch of both on drill bits, auger and such. boy I'm glad I'm not a
> driller anymore!
>> Jer
> I'm glad you aren't either.
> Given a proper heat treat, an arc welded anvil ought to be fine.
> Most anvil repairs don't bother.
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