Jaret

High grit flap disks for the 4.5 grinder. i did it to mine the other day. I just like my things looking new. its just me. every year i take the wire cup brush to all my tools like my pipe wrenches and so one, buff em, clear coat them, and oil them down. i have had the same pipe wrenches for 10 years and heavy use in them. just how i like my things. Ps. my anvil looks pretty now.

I put the hammer on both anvils today. Both on the concrete floor of the garage. The 100 pound Columbia has a high pitched "ping" and the Ajax has a dead "Ping". Does that mean anything? J.

Excellent. Thanks for all the input. Buddy has one more 100 pound peter wright which is in excellent shape. Going to go get that in a couple weeks. Thanks for all the insight. Ill post my polished anvils later. Thanks J.

Ok, I bought a couple. spent just over $200 for both. One is an Ajax 125 pounder, the other is a Colombian (thanks Finnr) that is 100 pounds. Sometimes I spent money carelessly. The Ajax is in rough shape, and I want to refinish it. If I screw it up, no biggie, still a useful garden ornament if anything. The question is, if I were to flatten the face and clean up the sides by sacrificing some meat of the anvil, would it ruin the anvil? I will only be using these anvils to learn from. Things like forge welding and folding metal, not do much design yet. What do you think? Cheers, J.

Like I did. Scour your local classified, talk to collecters, auction sales, etc.

Not sure Slosheider, but Ron Dixon is from Saskatoon. He is a pretty well established guy, knows his stuff.

This guy is in and around Saskatoon. Are these a good buy? I am going to buff them up. I was thinking about planing the tops somehow. Any ideas? As well, what is the one with a V on it? Identification please. Thanks. J.

so i bought 2. #1 - 125lbs Ajax - rough edges. needs to be plaed om the top. #2 has a symboly of a V with a circle around it. this guy had 2 peterwrights there. mint condition. and a Norrise. Interesting stuff.

not sure what it is yet. will know next week when i go there.

Called the guy back. Still has it. In fact he has another that is 100lbs. SO 2 for sale, but I can only grab one of them. So atleast I will be off to a good start. Thanks all for your advise.

Cool, thanks all. WIll hopefully beable to grab it next weekend. :)

A guy has this anvil for sale. I only have this side view picture. He said the a chips along the edges but the face is in reasonably good shape. He is asking $125 and its 115lbs. Is this worth buying? Thanks Jaret

Anyone have any idea what kind of steel they use for gradders. I have about 10 blades in my parents yard. J.

Using 2 inch Kaowool with bricks on the inside would give me a working area of about 6" x 12". Is there an ideal spacing for the burners? What I am spacing mine at is about 5.5 inches. Should they be closer or will that work. I can always add more kaowool and brick to make the inside tighter. Thanks J.

I thought I would post the progress of my forge. It will take awhile as I am building it in phases that I can afford. I bought an old air compressor yesterday at the scrap yard for $20. In the past 24 hours I have stripped it down and figured out what I want to do. I do have a question about the propane burners. See attached pics. The last pic is kind of what I had in mind. Tank dimensions after doctoring would be about 18" long by 12" in diameter. 2 - 1" propane burners, which can be swapped out to 3/4" burners if needed. Those are the exsisting hole and a new hole i will drill in and weld 2 1" eyelets. Only the front door will open. I will cut out where the "X" is the reattach the cut off part as the door. 1.5" of kaowool to surround the inside. Will cut a small hatch on the other side to slide steel through if needed. I want to forge weld. What do ya think? Will this work? Overkill? Ideas, thoughts, criticism? Thanks J.