[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 111, Issue 18

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I'll bow to Jerry's superior experience here.
Having seen anvils with huge chunks missing where  welding repairs were done previously,
i respectfully urge smiths to be reluctant to weld on an anvil unless absolutely necessary.
Note that there will unavoidably be a heat affected zone adjacent to the weld on a high carbon anvil face
that is going to be softer than the original "glass hard" face.
Some guys argue that they are only going to beat hot steel on it, so why be all that fussy? 
But in everyday, real life, anvils see impacts from cold metal, sheet steel forming and hammer mis-strokes, etc....
not to mention the neighbor who wants to hammer his bent wrench back out while you are away.

On Apr 26, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:

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.
> 

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