Acme anvil

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Good evening everyone.
My name is Thayne Teichmer.
I am in NE ND.

First time posting.

I just picked up a Acme Anvil
I paid 75 dollars for it.
It's not great by any means.
It's 3inches wide and the face is 12 inches long
It had lots of weld splatter on the face and someone smothed it with a angle grinder.
It's not too bad for flat length wise but is slightly domed width wise.
Probably from the angle grinder.
I ran a wire brush then a file over the face to knock the weld slpatter.
Next I ran a wet stone over it to see how much contact area it had.
I'm guessing it in the 25 to 30 % range.
It is stamped W59 and A30310

Was wondering if anyone could help me find out how old it was and who made it.
I would post crappy cell phone pics but I have not figured that out yet.


Thanks in advance
 
The only time I've ever seen an Acme anvil Wily E. Coyote had one trying to catch the roadrunner,but inevitably he ended up underneath it
 
It would help to post photos of the anvil and any markings.

From your description, it is a 77# Acme Tools forged anvil. They are good anvils, and IIRC, pretty high priced. They are sold under the name "Rigid".
As to the condition, it would take photos to comment on that.

Use the Google search engine in the Stickys to see how to post photos.
 
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That is not what mine looks like.
Some research found that it is possible that it is a old Sears anvil.

Hay Budden or Trenton made them.
 
Is it marked ACME?

If it is an old Hay Budden, its a great find.

Post photos as soon as you can, or email me the photos and I'll put them up.
 
Stacy I sent you a email with what I have.

Also post 4 has a link in it.
I don't know if it works for you.
 
Here are the photos. The stamp is .5 hundredweight 9 pounds, which is 66# + 9# = 75#.
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Definitely a good oldschool anvil albeit a bit whanged up. Still a bargian at 75$.
Clean it up & use it. Just work around its damages. Dont do anything daft like ”mill its top flat”.
 
No way I would mill it.

It rebounds nice in the center

The heel is a little weak on the rebound.

Now I have to get a forge.

Rose bud touch not really that efficient
 
I have an old Acme anvil-I believe about 107 pounds. If I remember correctly, Lin Rhea provided me some good info on it from a book he had. Based on the information I gave him, it sounded as if it was made by Trenton on the east coast in the early 1900’s. Mine was a bit chippy on the sides and I took my angle grinder to those edges. Definitely didn’t “ruin” anything, but in hindsight, I would now just wire wheel it and call it good.

Jeremy
 
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