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  1. You are probably looking at a cable with a higher tensile steel core. The cores are sometimes heavily lubed with a graphite or aluminium based grease so there will be no rust or staining of the core wires even though the outer strands are a bit oxidized.
  2. there is a couple of photos of how the tip should be shaped and some de-structions in this old topic from 2009 '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>
  3. It looks to be the perfect height for handling bigger unwieldy objects. At that height there is still plenty of leverage from the legs and back to lift and hold something and the striker can get a full swing on the sledge. I struggle if I have to use just my shoulders and upper arms to manipulate the heavy gear. I have a couple of very old stands for holding the other end of a long piece of heavy bar, they come to just above my knee.
  4. this one is 2" by 2" across the anvil top plate with an inch and a quarter hardie stem and the stem is offset away from the notches (just so it fits, I think). the others are 1.5", 2" and 3" across the top, I think that is deliberate. On this one, one notch fits 7/8" round and the other 9/16". The octagonal shape of the stem had me thinking that it might fit diagonally and go over a pritchel hole, but it looks like the bloke that made it has accidentally made the stem undersized and reworked the metal out of the corners to salvage it. The others are all 7/8" stems to go in a hardie stand, not the hardie hole in an anvil.
  5. I have had a few of these small hardie anvils (pictured on the right) stacked in a box on the shelf for six months or so, hoping that some inspiration would come to me as to what they are used for. I am officially admitting defeat and asking for some help :unsure: I have been working on the theory that they are for repairing or resetting something that is already forged but I could be way off the mark! Some are like this one with two adjacent notches on the edge and one has three sides notched. the un-notched faces are very precisely faced and one anvil has a couple of small punched holes that look to me like it is used to help align the object to be forged. regards Yahoo p.s. the monkey in the picture is not handled and on my tool rack cos I've been a bit slack unmotivated.
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