homemade anvil

[celsoari]

how i built my homemade anvil:


Greetings from Brazil
Celso Ari

 

[ShopShoe]

You did a fantastic job with that, both in design and in the process of building.

You are a master of many disciplines.

Thank You for posting,

--ShopShoe

 

[celsoari]

Thanks, my friend, you are very kind to your comments.

 

[MRA]

Really nice furnace! I do some home metal casting - a bunch of ridge tiles is a great idea.

I am a bit surprised that railway track has enough carbon in it to harden just with a quench. Did you use anything to encourage it to case-harden when you heated it - charcoal in the furnace, or suchlike?

 

[Entropy455]

Typical rail iron (grade 880):
0.6 to 0.8 percent Carbon
0.8 to 1.13 percent Manganese
0.19 to 0.5 percent Silicon
<0.035 percent Sulphur
<0.035 percent Phosphor
<0.02 percent Aluminum
Remainder iron
As manufactured hardness: Rockwell C23

 

[fitzroy]

Looks real great , good job

 

[Dubi]

Very impressive, well done.

 

[celsoari]

thanks friends

 

[Jennifer Edwards]

I have always kept a chunk of railroad track bolted to a tree stump as my anvil, but I never thought of turning it into a thing of beauty as you did.

well done!

 

[BWMSBLDR1]

how i built my homemade anvil:


Greetings from Brazil
Celso Ari

 

[BWMSBLDR1]

What a great job! And that is a pretty powerful torch too. I have been sitting on a 6' chunk of rail for years but chickened out when I found a 106 pounder for $100US! Impressive anvil! Bill in Boulder CO USA

 

[packrat]

I enjoyed your video on making the anvil..

 

[Gonzalo]

Hi, Celso. I also made a railroad anvil, but the hardie hole is difficult to make, due to the hardness of the steel. It was not tempered, but worked as it is. Drills don´t work well, How did you made that perfect square? Muito obrigado.