Thread: portable anvil

Oh boy! I am starting to feel better already!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh boy! I am starting to feel better already!

Glad to hear that your fever broke

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Glad to hear that your fever broke

Yeah...All that impending disaster stuff...Makes me nervous!

You could still get the VFD in on it, Charlie! Lots of volume from those fire-hoses!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yeah...All that impending disaster stuff...Makes me nervous!

You could still get the VFD in on it, Charlie! Lots of volume from those fire-hoses!

After reading about 'hosing' the hot metal down the thought about using the Fire Dept's hose actuall came to mind. However I don't know how 'request friendly' Charlie's Fire Dept is.

Probably more fun than burning down vacant old structures and practicing putting them out?

Originally Posted by will52100

Didn't think about that, but with decent water pressure and a small enough size metal, no reason a simple garden hose wouldn't cool it down fast enough, mainly the top. And if you get the top hard and it's soft an inch down, that's all to the good. Most anvils are heat teated with a water fall technique, but we are talking a lot of water and anvils in 100 pound to 500 pound range, not a small 20 pound or less chunk.

i will bet that chunk of steel in the OP is a bit heavier than 20 pounds.

Not sure, as I don't know the dimensions, but the steel block itself I doubt is over 50 pounds. Be nice to know the dimensions and then I could tell what it weights.

Originally Posted by bluesman7

@spazola. What are the dimensions of the O1 block? Do I dare ask? (inside joke)

Originally Posted by will52100

Not sure, as I don't know the dimensions, but the steel block itself I doubt is over 50 pounds. Be nice to know the dimensions and then I could tell what it weights.

We want to know. If someone buys or in this case makes an anvil the first question is 'How big is it?'

Just looking at the pics, a wild guess would be 3" thick, 8" tall, 6" wide, that would put it at 40 pounds not counting the stand or welded base plate. Call it 41 pounds without the stand. Would love to know the dimensions though, just for curiosity's sake.

It is 4 x 7 x 6.5 about 53 pounds by my math

For comparison my round post anvil that I heat treated and quenched in water was 3.5 round x 9.25 long, about 26 pounds.

I am leaning toward water hose now, If they can do the jominy end quench on O1, I reckon I can use a water hose on my chunk of metal.