Found this Youtube video/channel on anvil repairs

[caotropheus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zziSro6yEvw&ab_channel=AnvilRepairs

https://www.youtube.com/@anvilrepairs

 

[JHCC]

Interesting. I shall have to check that out.

[Frosty]

Thanks for the link caotropheus I'm a few pages in and it's very interesting.

My prayers for you and yours.

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[TWISTEDWILLOW]

That’s pretty cool man thanks for sharing!

[Nobody Special]

I enjoy the technique, although my welding isn't up to par. Kind of the "Anvil of Theseus". There was a philosophical thought experiment in which a the "Ship of Theseus" went to sea and along the way, needed the sails repaired. A few hundred miles and a storm or two later, it required new planking and caulking. A couple of years in, the anchor need replacing, it then got a new rudder, and so on and so on until nothing was left of the original ship. The philosophical question was...is it still the same ship? There was also a shorter version in John Dies at the End involving an axe and a fascist reanimated zombie. If you replace the heel, then the horn, then the body over time, is it still the same anvil?

[Frosty]

That's not even an interesting philosophical question. Yes, it's the same thingy. When you replace a part the new part becomes part of the thingy or nothing is the same as it started out being. When you put new tires on your car is it now a different car? 

I don't recall how quickly but your blood is replaced completely in a surprisingly short time, I don't think it's a month but I don't recall. Same for every cell in your body, even nerve cells wear out and are replaced. 

Are YOU the same person you were 5 years ago; when you were a child?

On the other side of the argument, NO it's not the same anvil, it wasn't the first time it was struck. It may change more slowly but like a river you can never step into or use the same anvil a second time. 

Fun stuff to think about though, no wonder there are so many philosophers. 

Frosty The Lucky. 

 

[Nobody Special]

On 11/5/2023 at 7:21 AM, Frosty said:

That's not even an interesting philosophical question. Yes, it's the same thingy. When you replace a part the new part becomes part of the thingy or nothing is the same as it started out being. When you put new tires on your car is it now a different car? 

I don't recall how quickly but your blood is replaced completely in a surprisingly short time, I don't think it's a month but I don't recall. Same for every cell in your body, even nerve cells wear out and are replaced. 

Are YOU the same person you were 5 years ago; when you were a child?

On the other side of the argument, NO it's not the same anvil, it wasn't the first time it was struck. It may change more slowly but like a river you can never step into or use the same anvil a second time. 

Fun stuff to think about though, no wonder there are so many philosophers. 

Frosty The Lucky. 

 

I would tend to argue that no, in a lot of ways I'm not the same person, although I'm similar. Continuity is a slippery concept. If you replaced the tires on your car tomorrow at 08:00, then the alternator at 08:10, tie rods at 08:30, and so on until the last piece was replaced by lunch time, it would be a tougher argument. Or what if you gradually replaced the parts with say, until it was entirely made up of the parts for a 74 Dodge Dart? At that point would it still be whatever it is you drive now, which I can only assume is a 70 Mustang with the 429 and the Shaker hood?

[Frosty]

 

This, because I can't post just the roll eyes emoji.

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