(The repair day was free + the cost of consumables) (Not including preheat and post cool times!) Price the cost of that and you can see that the owner would have spent more money recovering from his folly than an anvil in better shape would have cost. It took over 5 hours of work by a professional welder using industrial equipment to build up the face to usability again. Last anvil repair day I attended only 2 anvils were worked on: the first had been milled down till the edges were square and there was no usable face left-threw away several hundred dollars of anvil value taking a usable anvil and making it a hunk of scrap metal + the cost of the milling. In general if you for some odd reason need a sharp edge-make a hardy tool with it! (Robb Gunter's process is generally accepted as being one of the best). If it absolutely MUST be repaired and you are in the USA, I would look around for an ABANA affiliate that is hosting an anvil repair day and using the CORRECT process to repair them. It is this face that determines the uselife of an anvil decreasing it is almost always a very bad thing indeed! Anvils have a limited thickness of hardened face. More anvils have been ruined by machinists or welders that may be excellent in their craft but not aware of how anvils are constructed or used. Of course setting it on your bathroom scale would have worked just as well.ĭO NOT GRIND OR MILL ON THE FACE OF YOUR ANVIL! ANVILS ARE *NOT* SUPPOSED TO HAVE SHARP EDGES! Shoot I have a smithing book that's over 125 years old that says (paraphrased) "is there anybody so dumb as to think an anvil should have sharp edges?" (Practical Blacksmithing, Richardson, 1889, 1890, 1891) Peter Wrights are weight marked in the CWT system leftmost digit is hundredweights: 112, middle digit is quarter hundredweights: 28 pounds and only 0-3, rightmost digit(s) is remainder so 114 = 1*112 + 1*28 + 4 = 144 pounds.
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