[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 111, Issue 18

[Jerry Frost]

Whats to lose Andy, A useful anvil maybe?

Forget HARD FACING! Use Build up rod/wire it requires NO preheat, sticks 
to damned near ANYTHING including cast iron, can be laid in as many 
passes as neccessary, requires NO postheat, nor slow cool down. It 
doesn't have a wide nor deep heat affect one because it's low amp 
intended for minimal heat affect. It isn't good to weld stuff together 
so a copper chill dam controls how it lays down perfectly. It air cools 
in the 45-50 rockwell range depending on product, read the sheet. and i 
IMPACT resistant like an ANVIL FACE!

Will you guys GET OFF the HARD FACING to "repair" (in truth RUIN) Anvils 
CRAP!!!

End RANT till I see HARD FACING mentioned AGAIN!
Jer

On 4/26/2013 9:22 AM, Andy Gladish wrote:
> I have a Trenton that's well over a century old, it has an unusual base
> that makes it perhaps a collector piece. First decent anvil I had.
> When I got it the off side was pretty chewed up and one day I took some
> stainless stick rod and just built the edge up to suit me. Have done a
> world of work on it since...not the best material to use, but if the object
> is to have a good, working anvil with the edges you need to get the job
> done, what's to lose?
> Never regretted it, though I agonized over it at the time.
>