Alphonse

Just got my new horizontal band saw blade...in a hurry to put it on the saw...took off the twist ties holding the blade and gave it a LITTLE PULL...IT WHIPPED OPEN TO FULL DIA. IN A SPLIT SECOND! STUPID>>>STUPID STUPID>>>no gloves...T-shirt...blade cat scratched 14 tooth per inch lines across the inside of my forearm, just missed my face, almost taking OFF my nose. BE CAREFULL OUT THERE!

Sorry for all the double photo's, I was really worn out that day and took the pics outside, in hurry, then fed them into the PC. There was so much sun glare on the shinny surfaces I just uploaded all pics, hoping one of each would be a better view than the other. The anvil turn out real good, if I might say so myself. the weld area, and all the the plate area/ HAZ are all HARD. I am not a professional blacksmith for sure, and less of a metalurgist. But the job will do for me. The surface is smoothe, flat and hard, with sharp corners all the way around. The Bick area was really shot and now looks like it should. MG 740 electrode [a smoothe running rod that runs like lo-hy 7018]data sheets say it is 31-40 RC as welded and will work harden a bit more! A new file just slides of all areas of the top face.