[TheForge] broken anvil

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Ben,

I don't have any experience with casting, so would gravitate to large blocks 
of steel welded together and then welded to the anvil.  We have a metel 
recycler in Quincy that saves material that is still pretty clean and 
resells to the public. That is where I got the plate I used to make my power 
hammer base. Their yard was full of stuff that was just too nice to send off 
to be remelted. I'm sure they get more from it by selling it to the end user 
than the steel mill.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] broken anvil


For base repair, is it reasonable to cast a molded fit/match, and then
braze or JB Weld it on?

BenB


On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Bob Ehrenberger 
<eforge at centurytel.net>wrote:

> Fabricating a base shouldn't be too hard, unless you want it to look
> original. Getting that much steel up to forging temp would take a lot of
> special equipment and experience.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
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>
> I have the top half of an anvil my Grandpa salvaged from somewhere.  The
> face is good and so is the horn.  It's missing it's base from the waist
> down.  Looks like somebody used a torch to cut it off there.  I was trying
> to figure out a way to put a base back on it and mount and use it, when I
> found the anvil I have.  I believe the broken one is a Peter Wright like
> the
> one I bought.  Although, I think it might have been a bigger anvil if it
> were whole.  Still kind of want to fix it and use it.
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> From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
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>
> We stopped at an Amish harness shop to get neatsfoot oil and saw the worst
> abused anvil I have ever come across (except the Tom Clark anvil repair
> gone
> wrong). I've seen anvils with missing horns, and anvils broken through the
> hardy hole, but this one had the base, horn and about 4 inched of the face
> left the rest was gone. The brake started over the center of the base and
> angled towards the rear of the base.
>
> I asked the owner if had the rest of it. He did not.  He also had no
> knowledge of how it got broken.  For a brief moment  I considered offering
> to buy it, but without the back half the repair would be a monumental job.
> >From the size of the horn, I would guess that it started life as a 170 to
> 200 pound anvil. There was about 100 pounds left. I couldn't make out the
> name.
>
> On top of it all, he didn't even have neatsfoot oil for sale.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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