ThomasPowers Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Plaid of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soupyjones Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 17 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Plaid of course! Yikes. Big tartan eyesore is not quite what I have in mind for my shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 1 minute ago, Soupyjones said: Yikes. Big tartan eyesore is not quite what I have in mind for my shop. "Big Tartan Eyesore" will be the name of my next band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soupyjones Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, JHCC said: "Big Tartan Eyesore" will be the name of my next band. Now with extra bagpipe! Might want to get cash up front for your first gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Well I could have suggested that you flock your anvil....Happiness is a warm fuzzy anvil! (Hmm if you magnetize it it will get fuzzy with use and warm after a day of heavy forging...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soupyjones Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Well you certainly got me there. Truth be told it was given to me right after it was made. It is only eight years old and has always been inside. The idea of painting it still scares me a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Soupyjones said: Well you certainly got me there. Truth be told it was given to me right after it was made. It is only eight years old and has always been inside. The idea of painting it still scares me a bit Invite the neighborhood kids in and tell them NOT to paint it. Finger paint would be unique, maybe even cool. Rig the bagpipes to the exhaust port of a modern utility hammer for neighbors who complain. There's an Alaskan smith on one of the islands who has been salvaging boilers and steam hammers for decades. A developer bought acreage adjoining him built a subdivision and immediately started complaining about the steam hammers. The city, then the Island/borough and finally State told them they had no case the hammers were there and working long before they built. The tactics turned into nuisance complaints at all hours. Rather than file suit for harassment he rigged steam whistles to the exhaust ports on his steam hammers. I understand everybody within a few miles knows when they're in use. At least they have a legitimate reason to complain now. It's your anvil, paint or not I want pics. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John in Oly, WA Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 8 minutes ago, Frosty said: Invite the neighborhood kids in and tell them NOT to paint it. Finger paint would be unique, maybe even cool. Rig the bagpipes to the exhaust port of a modern utility hammer for neighbors who complain. There's an Alaskan smith on one of the islands who has been salvaging boilers and steam hammers for decades. A developer bought acreage adjoining him built a subdivision and immediately started complaining about the steam hammers. The city, then the Island/borough and finally State told them they had no case the hammers were there and working long before they built. The tactics turned into nuisance complaints at all hours. Rather than file suit for harassment he rigged steam whistles to the exhaust ports on his steam hammers. I understand everybody within a few miles knows when they're in use. At least they have a legitimate reason to complain now. It's your anvil, paint or not I want pics. Frosty The Lucky. Always loved steam whistles myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 He never would send me a recording, the lighter hammers cycled much faster than the 1&2 ton hammers. The 100lb. hammers don't rattle the dishes in your cabinets though but I suppose a steam whistle cycling what 150-200 toots/min. would make up for no ripples on your coffee. If Deb and I ever get to the Island I'm sure he won't be hard to look up. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Hagopian Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Found a section of rail on a duck hunting trip. Turned it into a lovely little anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 On 6/26/2016 at 0:25 AM, Ed Hagopian said: Found a section of rail on a duck hunting trip. Turned it into a lovely little anvil. How did you manage to cut out the hardy hole, looks very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Hagopian Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Drilled with normal HSS and then I happened to have access to a Bridgeport endmill where I squared the sides as best I could. It fits rail spikes pretty well so that's what I'm using to weld hardy tools to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Looks very nice and I think you are on to something using the RR spikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Nice looking little anvil. You can drill the flange as well and screw it directly to the stand, it'll be a little more secure. You were able to drill the hole to pilot the hardy because whoever ground the contact surface to make a flat face ground through the induction and work hardened surface. I don't know of a way to reliably harden and temper the rail without running some risk. "The Complete Modern Blacksmith" by Alexander Weygers has a prety complete section on using rail for anvils and includes good instructions for heat treating it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Hagopian Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I was worried about losing the hardness too but honestly in the month I've been working with it, it's been absolutely solid. I was prepared to harden it but so far I haven't found a reason to. I don't know if it came out of the fact of its heavy use or what but the machinist that ground down the face said he came to the conclusion that the two hardest substances he knew of was carbide and whatever the hell this was. I have TCMB it's a great book and I recommend it to anyone looking to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackMetalViking Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 My uncle just showed up one day last year and dropped this Anvil off along with a 200lb vise. He had given me the chunk of rail a couple years back, and I purchased the ASO when I first started banging metal. Viking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 That's a good uncle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackMetalViking Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 9 minutes ago, JHCC said: That's a good uncle. I could't agree more! Along with the anvil and vise I also got a bunch of old tools for handling large stock, I guess he got it all off of an old railroad man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intruder357 Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 This is my Refflinghaus 100 kg. No. 58. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Parsons Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Greetings everybody, I signed up here several years ago and haven't been involved much, but now I'm back. I got this at an auction yesterday. It is covered in several layers of paint that I'll be working to remove over the next few days. I have no idea what it is, yet. I have found a couple 2's stamped by the tong holes under the horn. These are the auction listing photos, I'll post more up as I get it cleaned up. A bit of history on this. This was the mechanic's anvil when I hired onto the fire department 23 years ago, I have no idea how long it has been here. I'd always hoped I'd get the chance to own it, now I do. It has been sitting in storage for several years and I never saw it get used much before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgedinfire123 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 looks like a hay budden.......you can work around the torch nicks.....nice anvil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Parsons Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Thank You. Iv'e got some 6" x 12" white oak I'm thinking about making a base out of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Parsons Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Here's what I have figured out so far. It's a Hay Budden and the SN is 15900. I didn't get much in the way of cleaning done today, but will keep working at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Parsons Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Got some more cleaning done with pictures. Under the name (1st pic) it appears to have '158' stamped in it. The rest of the numbers showed up fairly good in the rest of the pics. Now I'm off to decipher numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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