April 16, 20188 yr Once your rebound gets above 95% it's really hard to eyeball. I made a jig to hold a ruler and a strong magnet to hold the bearing ball so I could stand back a little ways with the light coming from an oblique angle to make a sharp shadow on the ruler. I figure I was seeing in the 97%+ range but it's still an eyeball estimate so I say it's 95%+ as a conservative number. Those are just numbers though, it's working on one that the magic. Even though I can bounce mine with a heavy blow and a 4 lb. hammer it still moves steel like putty. One of these days I'll get a shot at trying a heavier one. Can't be worse, I'm not looking for a REALLY HEAVY portable after all. Frosty The Lucky.
April 16, 20188 yr Author 2 hours ago, mike k said: I will have to do the test again. The results I'm getting are defying the laws of physics, hence the screen shots, 95%+/- is the figure everybody quoting so assume this anvil is the same. But at the end of the day it's irrelevant all you have to do is work on it and you can feel the difference. At the moment I haven't got my shop set up, I just put the anvil, vice and stump in and sat my old gas fire on top of the coal forge. I need to make a flue for the coal fire, it's good enough for now to work machine made shoes and shoe a few horses that I have come to me. I hope to have it all finished by the end of the year as next year I plan to work mainly from home shoeing and up skill in general blacksmithing . I have picked up a 9 ton screw fly press which I have been fixing up. I have no experience with using one, I'm looking foreword to playing with it.
April 16, 20188 yr And that's a neat-looking buggy in the background there. Do I spy a VERY large grindstone as well? I like the hat on the stump. Oh, and the fly press is OK, too.
April 16, 20188 yr Author Thats a abbott buggy. In October my youngest daughter is getting married at home and she wants to arrive in the buggy. In front of the buggy is a chaff cutter I restored .
April 16, 20188 yr 3 hours ago, ausfire said: I like the hat on the stump. It's cast H13 steel, for SERIOUS reblocking.
April 16, 20188 yr Author 5 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: I thought that was a ute in front of the buggy? I should of said the green thing next to the buggy ausfire thought it was a grindstone
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