No welding required! But you do need a mill, a Bridgeport, a surface grinder, a brake press, giant metal fab band saw with coolant, lazer cutter, plasma cutter, oxy acetalyne torch, and a crane to lift it all

@MaximumIndustries

5 жыл бұрын

I lifted everything by hand, 150 pound plates, but I lift more than that. No oxy acetalyne, no plasma cutter, no laser cutter, no surface grinder, no brake press. All you need is a cutting impliment and something to drill holes. The nice clean edges are optional, you can just stack the plates and have the edges ragged. Easier would be to contract a general fabricator to burn and drill the plates for you for assemble if you don't have access to a shop. But this whole job could be done with an angle grinder and a hammer drill.

@therealsourc3

5 жыл бұрын

Don't say it can be done with an angle grinder and a hammer drill if you haven't done so.. :/ Just assuming things and making statements, while you're there with your fancy equipment and milling things flat like hell, someone else has to deal with eyeballed differences limited by the anglegrinder's tiny effective abrasive surface and trying to fit these big ass plates together. The result will probably be a wobbly mess; Also more layers will make one queer drilled hole a pain in the neck when trying to fit it all together, let alone trying to tap it. Also, it'll probably cheaper to weld it solid together than it is to drill lots of holes trying to get it all flat to not wobble after screwing in the bolts. Also I reckon the bolts will unscrew after some 100+ hours of hammering, so you have to tighten all the screws again.. TLDR: fancy equipment saves you lots of time and lowers inaccuracies that would be higher with cheaper tools. Welders are not expensive and easens your work significantly. In the long run it's cheaper getting a stick welder than wasting your money on a thousand flap discs and drill bits.

@MaximumIndustries

5 жыл бұрын

Sure, I didn't say welding wouldn't be better, it would be. I just showed an alternative method from some scrap we were throwing out.

Aboit the hardy hole?

I’d buy it!

Generally you need to fully weld to have a solid mass of metal to get decent rebound, in saying this I have considered this technique or similar with the thought that if your surfaces are flat and there is enough torque it should be as good as a solid mass and that in turn should give good results, I was looking forward to see what the rebound was like on this anvil so my question is, how is the rebound and is this worth building an anvil this way or not?

@MaximumIndustries

6 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for a special tool steel plate for the surface and that will get added probably around December. I've got a lot going on at the moment. I'll post a rebound and forging video when I get finished up with my current projects.