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ok had a really good long look at it today and it says solid wrought like the others. Just the way the stamping was done is kinda shallow looked like iron.

Picked up a pretty nice 149# pewter wright anvil the other day and was wondering the history on mine. It says the standard peter wright stuff on the side of it "peter wright patent " but under that where it should say stamped in a circle "solid wrought" mine says "solid iron" I've never seen this before and was wondering about when this anvil was made? I'll try to post some pics in the next couple days. It's a solid one piece welded on face about 1/2" inch thick and one piece lower half tt arly forged int shape (can see the hammer marks).

if the pipe is cut square and is a big enough diameter i tack inside the pipe and it will pull itself to the plate flat and square as the tack cools instead of pull the pipe off the plate and out of square when tacking outside.

ticketed welder here, currently weld to mil spec on government vehicles. When tig welding you should not have to go over 20cfm or you start risking turbulence in the gas flow which can cause air to mix with the shielding gas. I always run gas lenses when i tig and this lets you run lower cfm because of the smooth even column of gas it creats compared to running a standard collet setup. I run 12 cfm on anything tigged indoors unless welding reactive metals than i trun it up to 15-18 with a huge gas cup backup gas and a following purge cup.