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I clean the filings off with a low pressure (60-70 lbs) puff with a blow gun.

Thanks all. If it were a Fisher at $120 I would have snagged it but it definitely looks like an old, less than top quality anvil so I'm gonna pass.....It's on Denver CL .............

This one looks identical.....It looks like the same thick tool steel face as a Fisher, way thicker than a Vulcan anyway but pictures tell only so much.

.....It weighs 50 lbs.

Idiots!

Sweet!

Hi Clint, nice looking Hay Budden.............. B)

Nice looking Vulcan. Just be careful not to miss blows near the edges, they are brittle! I'd radius them a bit. If you need to do any cold hammering keep it light and in the center and it should be alright.......................... B)

Impressive work...I love the head.............. B)

Fabrication can rock.....I'd be in 7th heaven if someone wanted me to build something like this.....Minus a few million rivets.... B)

One question; Are you wealthy?

Betcha can't.

Hi Rick, welcome aboard.....Any chance it could read Peter Wright, it sure looks like one................. B)

I've go an AD hood but I still and always have done 'blind tacks' when felt like it......All of a sudden I'm less inclined to continue that practice. Thanks for the post and get well soon! 30 or so years ago I did so much blind tacking in one day I burnt my eyelids, that was an eye opener......Also around the same time I laid down allot metal with a wire feed one day wearing a tank top.....Burnt my armpits real good, I don't recommend it....... Knew a fellow back in the 70's who was a structural welder. He welded all day long in the hot sun on the top floors of buildings and didn't even wear a shirt, just hood,jeans and boots.......He had a very dark leathery tan on his upper body, bet he's dead from skin cancer now.

CMO.....Chinese Metal Object...... :ph34r: .......Two things; one, the 1887 looks to me like that was put there to fool someone looking for an antique.......and the other is I doubt it's made in the US.....The fact that it's so boldly stated makes me leery........ :unsure: ........Keep looking.

Real nice, I like how the steel balusters don't crowd the space, thus opening up the upper room............. B)

Beautiful. I love the natural finish........ B)

Not needed here.....well, maybe the other guy...........

Higher gpm (faster ram speed) at the same psi requires more horsepower. My 25 ton is a single stage is powererd by a 10 hp mtr with an 11 gpm pump @2500 psi. 11 gpm drives the 5'' cyl fast enough to eliminate the ''suck'' factor unless the piece is just too massive to forge under 25 ton anyway. Two stage pumps slow down when they make contact with the work piece so that contrubutes to the suck factor imo. They each have advantages and disadvantages......

That torch is so KA it just need to be close...... :P ....It operates at 25-30 psi fuel and 80-90 psi oxyen....... I reckon if I let go of it, it would whip around the shop like firey Dervish so I keep a firm grip on it............Tried a second pass with it yesterday but I ran out of ox.......go figure...... :mellow:

Sucess! I ran the monster slowly across the plate on the high side for 20 min and the worse gap in the rt side foreground has shrunk from 3/8'' to 1/8'' and it's not even cool yet. Might run another pass tomorrow if needed............. B)

There's a BIG difference between a 6'' and an 8''. A nice 6'' might go as high as 3-400 around here, the 8 incher's get crazy............ :wacko:

Got it! I'll have a crack at it in the AM............ B)

Lovely.............. B)

I can remember about 25 years ago when I was *fooling* around trying to make a substance out of lye and acid and whatever that would patina metal. My partner at the time said ''WHOA, if you jack around mixing acids and alkalines you just might patina your lungs with phosgene gas and that would shorten your day pdq......A minefield awaits those who blunder forth without knowing what they ate doing, I know all too well.