Air hardening steel cap for railroad track anvil

[Charcold]

for a soft metal anvil it should work just fine to grind a horn into it! Hit the scrap yard in spring for a hard metal anvil and you can use whatever you make for your mother until then. 

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[Lefse]

On 1/31/2018 at 7:29 PM, Charles R. Stevens said:

It also includes a fuller, cut off and pritchel holes. For a silver smith including groves such as the early bronze anvils had would be easy enough. If you cut 1” slices off the flange and web you have blanks for making a small double brick, a pan stake and other sheet tools. A track plate makes a dandy tool, plate for those small tools, exceptionally well suited for a silver smith. 

I wish I knew what you meant lol. Groves like early bronze anvil? I searched Google idk maybe you can explain with a picture haha.

Actually I don't know what most of you are talking about half the time. Just kinda hoping some of it sticks at this point 

[Charles R. Stevens]

Archeological ilistration of a Bronze Age anvil

Old advertisement of a tinsmithing stake with creasing groves. 

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

That should have been grooves, not groves. See the grooves along the top of the anvil in the right illustration ?

[Charles R. Stevens]

One inch slice of flange and web

 

Yea, spelling sucks, thanks for the save BGD

One trick is to use google image search, it helps filter out rock bands, software ads and such. If you just google anvil you will get a heavy metal band and a brand of jeans first, if you google forge you will get several software returns. 

Iron Age anvil and Viking era anvil will get you good returns as will stake anvil, post anvil and sheet metal stake and tin smithing stake

[Lefse]

Getting closer 

I'm not sure if it helps ,y case but I am dropping the brake drum forge for... box of dirt? Gotta be side blast some can use charcoal in a pinch 

[Lefse]

Charles I like that stake anvil quite a bit, do you think a power hacksaw could cut through it or?

I can't do that with my angle grinder, but my grandfather has a hacksaw 

[ThomasPowers]

One trick for cutting RR rail by hand is to cut from the base as it's softer and then break the worked hardened last little bit---or grind though it.

[Charles R. Stevens]

As Thomas recommends start at the flange and cut toward the face of the rail head. Rail is 85 point manganese steel, good tool steel. 

I would advocate against a brake drum as generally you will tie up $50 to a $100 wile a dais of dirt runs less than $20

[Lefse]

Why does my content need to be approved by a moderator lol

[Glenn]

If you had posted in private it would have been answered in private. This is posted in public to answer your question that was posted in public.

If you read the moderation report sent to you, it details that your posting in areas that have nothing to do with the subject of your post. We then must  move your post to where it relates to the section. 

Moderation allows us to see your new post, read the post, and move it if necessary. Otherwise we have to continually monitor the entire site to try to keep up. The moderation expires when we no longer have to move your posts.

 

[ThomasPowers]

In general being moderated is not a comment on you personally; I've been moderated a couple of times---once for a typo and once for a phrase I had used in Church speaking with my Pastor that same week.  Use it as an "in the future watch out for XYZ" indicator and get on with your life! (Or you can leave in a huff and so cut off your nose to spite your face.)