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my has a similar "casting flaw" but all i can think it it meant you were getting a slightly heavier anvil for your money

i guess my only concern would be did any of the sand that was the mold end up inside the body of the anvil when the mold side crumbled

well nuts i really like these glasses

just a thought but did you pm Glenn about this before putting it up as this was presented as lets change the how IFI is run

you have put a poll that has nothing backing it

yet presented it as options to choose from

so my "vote" is a pass unless someone real put its up

on a side note i was going for cheap so these were both made from scrap on hand

this is mine its  a nice little 4 inch vice the stand and vice weigh in around 85lb the bottom third of the center pipe is filled with metal filings and capped with junk a lead

the stand is a a tripod (the center of the stand is about 1 1/2 inches off the ground) so slightly springy but for the work you should be doing on a 4inch vice it is quite nice the legs have holes in them so you can stake them down in needed and it has been very stable on all uneven surfaces that i have put it on as you can see it has hooks and hanging rails for tools and tooling

the second one here is one i made for a teaching shop i work at and is a 5 3/4 inch vice and the weighs in at 140lb bit hefty for porting around but very very stable and nice to be able to set up out side and on the uneven slab of the shop

wow rich that was less than helpful

i catch myself doing this when i am using a lathe and as i do not enjoy the side effects i loosen up as soon as i realize i am doing it but as he asked if there is a good trick to breaking this habit your response is about as much help as a poke in the eye

i know as i work i make a effort to relax my grip on the upswing on my hammer ( hope this helps you)

this bad habit of over gripping tools runs in my family(brother father and myself) and i am interested to see if anyone has any other tips for helping to break this habit

yeah thats what happens when a road cone and a piece of railroad track have a love child

yeah the most got changed a bit as it got bounced around the sight last night i had just put this up as it was interesting to see this pattern of anvil this size when the largest one with that wast pattern i had seen was 20lb

it is up for sale somewhere on the internet and there are a few more photos with it

i have no interest in buying it and its not worth the drive to sneak in and hit it with a grinding wheel so my bet is it will remain a mystery as to what is is cast from

I was looking around and this this popped out at me seems interesting if pricey 

was just  wounding if anyone knows anything about it

plus the description was kind of fun

"Large anvil for sale 2 feet long not including rounded tip 3 feet 1 and a half inches long including rounded tip. 7 and 3/4 inches wide 1 foot high. Pick up a must"

good point he will have a car for part of the time and the nice thing about most tools is they dont mind taking the slow boat

the ebay idea is fantastic

i had been hoping he would come across a small stump anvil

in general i am more interested in blacksmiths tools that are usable but different that that what we have more commonly available to us in the states

and as i tend to make all my own handles i was thinking hammer heads and the like would not be to bulky

Well I was talking Father a few days ago and he mentioned that he is planning on hitting some junk shops and the like while he and my mother are are over in France and if there was anything blacksmith related that he should keep an eye out for  for me

and before you say anvil it needs to be able to come back home on the plane

any thoughts o wise ones of IFI

just have some free time and made one of these not as spiffy as yours but man is it handy thanks for putting this up

yeah i was looking at this as well but it would be a three hundred mile round trip for me

have you thought about drilling and tapping holes to secure the legs with

have you thought about enclosing the electronics but having the heat sinks protruding through a wall into a secondary enclose with the fans blowing over them in there then you can just clean off the fins with compressed air and keep the guts relatively clean

i would like to point out that i did not say having it on wheels is just as good Tim but that being mobile as many "hobby" or part time smiths lets limited space be better utilized and for me if i want to be forging inside for the winter i need to be able to move things around and my feeling is that there are many people on IFI that are in a similar boat

having worked on many a wobbly/walking anvil i can tell you i really do not like them and that i can do more work on my well mounted 100lber than on a 200lb+ wobbly anvil

 in response to having mildly annoyed you

i guess i have find it really annoying when people respond to someones setup with a Nope wrong attitude

don't get me wrong i bet you move more metal in a week than i move in a year but hey i bet i raise more beef than you do

just try and look at this as a sight for people of all sizes of setups

Mac thats what i did for mine

"with a little work you can have a anvil stand with the wheels just off the ground so that you can tip it to one side a roll it"

even so the need to have it mobile makes it less stable than one bolted to the ground this could be a result of working on a concrete slab

i have been very happy with a lighter stand when i use it on a sand floor it stays put even though i would say its only around 150lb anvil+stand (this only works when there is no snow on the ground though)

tim some of us do need to be able to move them now and then my shop has to have everything moved to a wall if we have to bring a tractor in and split it so vices forges /table saw/ lathe /anvils /drill press/ welder/ chop saw/ band saw/ grinders welding tablex2 20ton press are all on wheels or movable with a hand truck its not perfect but when we build the shop we thought 30x30 would be big enough i sure wish i had had the cash to chip in to bump it to a 40x30 but thats the way it goes so long story short if you need mobility you have to sacrifice stability to some degree

and i have yet to really be happy with a mobile anvil stand my 120lb fisher is on a 200lb stand and i still make it jump around but when stripped down it weighs about 220 or so and can be moved without much trouble

on a side note with a little work you can have a anvil stand with the wheels just off the ground so that you can tip it to one side a roll it far better than having it rest of the wheels all the time

just as a side note about 11years ago i had a bunch of tools stolen from me where i was working and it was covered under their insurance

as i tend to be as frugal as i can be i buy most things with the exception of safety equipment second hand

with that being said i had about $800(not counting time invested in finding used good tools cheap) bucks worth of stuff taken i had a fairly complete list and i told them roughly what i had spent on things there response was thanks and find out what the replacement cost new is and we will pay for it

i ended up with a check for $3500 and besides from the stress and aggravation I kind of wanted to thank who ever ripped me off as they got the short end of the deal

so all in all John is 100% right

if possible mark things where it is not visible unless you know where to look most of my power tools that leave the shop are marked with my name on the outside and when i can i put a second marking inside as most tools you can pull about to replace a cord you can find a spot to etch a name

just my rambling pennies thrown into the ring

on a side note the the baseplates do make for a not half bad spot to make and use hardy tools until you have a "real" anvil

this could be a good spot to start

http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/30353-crane-cable-available/

all i did for mine was run a leaf spring down to the lower surface that rubbed along and bypassed the bearings it also help to stop the table from rotating on its own and means i don't tie myself up in cords

you might think of setting it up as a welding table i really love having a table that spins it lets you move the work around as you weld admittedly mine is only a a 24x24 but it has been incredibly handy

before i started building anything for it put some real weight on it and see if it still works i know with bearings the seem fine until you put them under load
other than that what a score