Hey, I would like to know how you made out with heat treat on this anvil.
I am the category manager for castings and forging for a large OEM. I was visiting a steel foundry in Milwaukee and came across a anvil casting on their overs pile....slated for scrapping. I worked it out to get the anvil and had it shipped back to South Carolina. Raw casting, so I am going tomorrow to have the face milled and ready for heat treat. While I know its steel, I don't know the exact material. I know the alloys this foundry pours mostly, but I don't think they will tell me the chemistry since that knowledge is IP of the people they originally poured it for....just like I would expect them to not tell anyone the material of the parts they make for me. So I have not even asked, beside, they did me the solid giving it to me and even blasted it first. I just had to have it shipped home. BTW, it is 200 lb, actual 205 lbs.
So after machining I have to heat treat and temper myself, and I am working out how to do this in my back yard. As long as it is not a high alloy or special alloy, I believe it will be straight forward and manageable with careful planning and some measures to monitor the temperature. As it is right now, as a raw casting it is pretty soft.
So I am curious if you did this and how did you manage the set up to heat, control the heat and quench. I will water quench, but considering Brine quench both with aggressive agitation.
See the pictures.