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I bought my 200lb peter wright with a large post vise and cobbler shoe making kit for $300 on ebay.

I like that idea and with the pulleys... wish my garage wasnt full and I had a shop.

I like the creativity I wish I had more of it.

Thanks for all the info, and you guys are right i dont know thats why I asked.

I have a 200lb peter wright so I am not in need of an anvil, I was looking to cut a 4-5in piece and weld a shank to it to make it a hardy tool kinda like a small swage block. My brother was wanting to cut it up into 8in. sections to make small anvils. I am not going to attemp to heat treat them, I am just going to cut them out with the torch. I am overjoyed with the amount of info you guys have provided me with, I like that you guys are conserned for my saftey and explain why I shouldnt do it.

I will post pics when I am done in the project section.

Intresting ... mabey because the amount of mass it has ????

My brother bought a 4ft section of small gauge rr track and we were wanting to cut it up into smaller sections with a torch.

When I cut it with the torch I realize it is going to take some of the temper out of it. So should I quench the track in oil ?

After I quench it what color should I temper it to ? We are wanting to make some anvils and hardy tools out of it.

I am the same age as you and I find that most people are more than willing to help me out, I get alot of stuff for free because I am "young and have ambition" If you ask nicely most people will give you what you ask for or try to help you out.

I got my forge from a freightliner dealer they just gave me the brake drum and wished me luck, same thing for my ash dump I went to a tractor repair facility and they gave me a new exhaust flap and asked for pics when I was done lol.

I havent run into any rude or snobbish blacksmiths yet they all want to show me what they know and answer my questions, just be polite but as posted above there are nasty people in every profession.

You are more than welcome here we have alot of people from around the world on this site,several from the uk.

It took me a long time when I tried to light my first fire..

Lite a large paper fire in the forge over the air hole get all of your junk mail and set it ablaze make it big the bigger and hotter the easyer it is to start it .. when it gets nice and hot put a shovel full of coal on it make sure it is a mound coal burns in piles dont be stingy with the coal, and crank the blower ! When you see yellow/brownish smoke coming from the coal it is starting to catch.. keeep cranking and dont stop until you have flames shooting out from your pile of coal.

I am laughing at myself because I was exactly where you were a couple months ago, I was soooo pissed I couldnt get the fire going lol.

It gets easy you learn what to look for.

Awsome i really enjoyed the vid and talk about team work !

I have found a few places but unless you are a buisness buying literally TONS of steel at a time.

Where is a good place to buy steel at a good price, I know I can get rebar coil spring and leaf springs from the junk yard cheap but I would like to find a good supply of rouns stock, square stock and flat stock.

What is a good price on steel per. lb when buying from a supplier?

Intresting I like it, and thanks for the welcoming.

I sold a pair of flat tongs to a guy just now so I am keeping the other ones I bought it paid for them....

I am sure I will find a use for them somewhere during my blacksmithing adventures.

I like having a arsenal of tools ..... the woman hates it :P

I will probably try to sell them, I had picked up a few tongs at the garge sale along with thoes so If i sell these they will pay for

the ones I am keeping. But they are really a "one purpose" items so they may be hard to sell without repurposing them. But then againg for $5 I wouldnt have a problem keeping them. The valve compressor tongs seem like with a little tweaking they would make good rr spike tongs..... hmmmm a excuse to keep them lol. Its raining right now ... well see what tomorrow brings.

Thanks... it was bothering me lol.

I bought several tongs at a garage sale for $5 a piece and I cant figure out what these would be used for ?

I looked on ebay and didnt see any like them.

If you are a member you can get the clinker breaker e-mailed or a paper copy mailed to you.

It's a legitimate anvil and definitely not an ASO. There are some issues I "see" from the other pictures this individual has up that concern me, and I've actually expressed this to the buyer via email correspondence. Trust me when I say that he/she doesn't really know what it's worth; I got a few numbers out of the conversation, but they were along the lines of someone offering his son $450 for it a year ago... or was it $600??? Some extremely bogus quote from what I remember.

 

1. It's painted, no matter how much I try to coerce the seller, he won't strip that "nice paint job"...

2. There seems to be a significant gap in the top plate.

3. Torch cuts... errrr

4. There seems to be a huge crack on the waist, just behind the horn in the pic that has the horn facing to the left...

 

All this could be resolved in a physical inspection and rebound test... So I'd just go there cash in hand... I personally wouldn't offer him anything more than $100 to kick off the haggle, based purely on it's visible condition... Considering "our" regional handicap on anvils, $2 a pound is the norm right off the bat.

This is one of the few i have seen within reasonable distance but melbourne is a little too far for me to drive for a 100lb I want to go for it but my little inside voice tells me to hold out on it. My plate is full right now, and I need to invest in some steel I already have a anvil... I just didnt want to send him some ignorant offer like I have before with other pepole.

The guy is asking for a offer, so I was wondering what a reasonable price would be ?

I dont want to insult him but I dont want to spend a rediculous amount on it.

I am still a newb with anvils is this one a decent one?

 I have a 200lb peter wright that is not exactly portable a 100lb one would be nice. I do realize its beat up and it would be my portable beater

What should I offer if it isnt a ASO ?  Photo #2

I wasnt going to use it for hammering, I just wanted to gather some info on it.

I wouldnt dare pound on a cast antique its heavy but not heavy duty, I have broken every cast iron vise I have ever owend.(I am slightly abusive ... Just slightly =) American scale co. is from Kansas city there are markings on the side under American scale co. that say KC. Mo.

And does vso stand for vise -shaped -object ?

Thank for the replies, I think they are made out of cast too.

I took a 3lb cross pein and swung at one of the drums that war not cut up yet... WOW it had some rebound and ring

almost hit my self in the head because I was not excepting the amout of re-bound.

I will make something out of it, I dont want to scrap it for $10 its a nice hunk of metal.

Thats cool, I thought the hole was so you could bend a rod or drill a item when it was in the jaws or something, never would have guessed a grinding wheel.

I bought a American scale Co. No.20 anvil vise on crigslist and cleaned it up so I could read the writing

and I am having a hard time finding info on it if anyone has any knowledge on this I would appreciate if you could tell

me something about it. The guy I bought it from said it was a vise from the 60's but I think it is mabey early 1900's correct me if I am wrong ???

I got a brake drum off of a mack truck from freight liner to make a forge out of and I cut the bottom "bowl" part off and

welded it to a 1/4in plate and made my forge from that. Now I have a nice 1in. ring to play with, I was thinking about cutting it up and making a small anvil out of it or something ...

My question is what type of steel would the drum most likely be made from ?

When I cut it it acted like regular mild steel but I am not too sure you would make a brake drum that stops

a 30,000lb + truck with friction out of just ordinary mild steel ?
 

Alright thanks, I am stil new to this fourm.

I was thinking  the iforge iron would be a good place to post my champion forge for sale but I did not see a catagory to post it under ...... is here ok ?

Thanks I think I might try the cat litter, dollar store lol