[TheForge] Little Giant / pulley / rpm / ???

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Anecdote from our workshop:

We were beveling the mounting notch on the cheap HF anvils we're using
(because they're cheap and we don't have to worry about destroying them)
http://www.harborfreight.com/55-lb-rugged-cast-iron-anvil-69161.html
The bevel is to allow the anvil to be rotated under the mounting bolts,
allowing quick set-up at the demonstration site.

Well, it never occurred to me that there could possibly be a problem doing
this until the guy doing the cutting said that there was a hole there!
Sure enough, there was a casting flaw in one anvil big enough to stick a
finger into up to the second joint!  Little metal BB's came pouring out of
the thing as he cut through.  He stopped work on that anvil immediately and
I took it back to HF for an exchange.  That's one thing about HF -- they
sell shit, but they stand behind it!  (What an image!)


Bruce
NJ

I can just imagine it heaped, steaming, there on the counter!
But that’s encouraging, they didn’t usta, having had numerous disputes with them years ago when i was too poor to buy decent tools. I had several of their peanut grinders that didn’t last through a whole disk…and so on.