Thread: My humble pinning anvil

I think it will be convenient to work on this anvil.

Originally Posted by Matheus

I feel in debt with one of my most useful tools. This slice of rail is plenty of great angles, and had endured a heavy ton of beating through its time with me. When at rest, it keeps being useful keeping doors wide open against the wind. Pretty cheap, indeed.
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That is pure genius to me, I would have never thought of using something like that. That's awesome

I feel in debt also with the best school I frequented ever, besides the chick's almost complete absence. PortalSenai - TÉCNICO DE MECÂNICA DE PRECISÃO

Fast students could accumulate free machining hours at school. We were pretty avid scrap hoarders just to make things at the spare hours. Colleagues made lots of tools and machines with scrap. I produced a model airplane engine from the paper, and lots of little machines, clamps, hammers, specialty pliers, surgical pins and screws, an occasional rifled barrel... . The school still is the best of latin america in precision mechanics. Lots of friends and colleagues made successful careers in industrial plants as production engineers, gun projects specialists, high-performance engines mechanics... I went to college and became a Biologist!
If a plan didn't had at least three inverted triangles at the legend, we didn't even discuss it there. We had almost a quarter mile building full of Aciera mills and grinders, Schaublin lathes, Tesa calipers, micrometers and dials. Every tool at the school was high-end, from files to CNC machines. To work everything, from quatz lenses to ship shift gears (Jet engines are boring with its single moving part... :meh:. It was there that I learned to appreciate good steel. I know how to precisely diagnose good steel at the crystallography microscope, and to at least get a good guess on how it sounds and tastes.
A toast to my masters and school!

Originally Posted by Matheus

I feel in debt also with the best school I frequented ever, besides the chick's almost complete absence. PortalSenai - TÉCNICO DE MECÂNICA DE PRECISÃO...snip...A toast to my masters and school!

As well you should! You are very fortunate.
Here in the small town I live is "University of Wisconsin, Stout" and many of the industrial arts instructors around the world were trained there. Many of those after having spent years in industry learning the trades. me...yes, back when we did the same as you!. Now the learning is by computer and guided by insurance companies and so poor at hands on workmanship.
Again, you are very fortunate!
~Richard

Trade schools,woodshop, metal shop classes are no more sadley

That is a nice looking set up, I need something like that!

I've just aquired a piece of track, and have used it with great joy, when pinning razors.

Oh yeah! That looks like a good one Matheus. Ive been really wanting one, about to go out on a search soon as my anvil is not so great... it bounces.
Thanks for the info on schooling and engineering etc.. made for a good read!
Engineering students now days do seem to have their faces stuck to computer screens..

Nice DIY anvil. I hauled a section of RR track to the scrap yard several years ago. I wish I had gotten a piece cut off to use for an anvil.
I've got a bench vise in my truck that has a small 'anvil' section on it. It is probably less than 2 square inches (I would have to check). If you don't get it tightened down well, it will not cooperate.

OUTBACK,
What did you do to the top of that track? Shiny

Originally Posted by JP5

Nice DIY anvil. I hauled a section of RR track to the scrap yard several years ago. I wish I had gotten a piece cut off to use for an anvil.
I've got a bench vise in my truck that has a small 'anvil' section on it. It is probably less than 2 square inches (I would have to check). If you don't get it tightened down well, it will not cooperate.

OUTBACK,
What did you do to the top of that track? Shiny

I used an electrc sander with50&80 grt. discs.
Then a progression from80- 600 wet/dry paper , with palm sander.
Then used a hand buffer, with various metal polish compounds.
Took about 4 hrs.
Here's what it used to look like.

I've got a 20" piece, that i need to get cut into 4" pieces, for a few people i know, as soon as i can.