Anvil repair

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anvilring

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So recently I bought this little anvil:

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It's an Armitage Mousehole forge and weighs 108 lbs. and since it has the remanants of the word "Patent", was made in or after 1879 up to 1895. so like many anvils of that era, has a hard steel/shear steel table heat welded to a soft steel body.

Question is, what harm would it do to weld up that one chipped corner near the cutting table? As is, it has tremendous bounce/return and ring.
Years ago I had to repair my Peter Wright 112 lb.'er but can't remember what # of hard surfacing rod we used as it's been almost 25 years ago I did it. Any professional welders out there that would know what i should use?
I'm not worried about the chips on the edge but I have that chip out of the corner and, the place on the heal where some A##h*l@ hit it w/ a cutting torch.

edit: On second thought I'm going to weld up the heel nick as well.

regards, m
 
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There are many different types of hardfacing rod.Make sure you get one that is for impact resistance and not so much abrasion resistance.Also some hardfacing rod will get too hard for an anvil face(like wear hard 80 that will hit 64rc). Wear hard 60 hits mid 50's as welded then Stoody 2110 that are generally used by most anvil repair guys. It does mid 50's as welded..
 
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Kentucky said:
Wear hard 60, and Stoody 2110 are good ones. Both getting RC's in the middle 50's as welded..
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Ah... that's what I wanted to know. My step son is a pipeline welder and can get me some rod like that I'll bet. Should I warm the anvil w/a heat gun before hitting it w/the rod?
 
Yes,400° is generally recommended pre-weld.Then a slow cool after welding(like setting it face down in sand,ash etc).I want to add that sometimes stoody 1105 is used as a top layer over stoody 2110..It has to do with one type of rod over another type of alloy. Rob Gunter recommends a layer of 2110 with a cap layer of 1105...Google Rob Gunter anvil repair and you can read the article.
 
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That anvil repair link says it all. Thanks to you all for the replys! I'll get some rod and go to it.

In reality a good bladesmith only uses about 4 square inches of any given anvil so there's plenty here already; just hate to see a genuine Mousehole left like this. I only paid $125 for it but that's beside the point.

regards,
mitch
 
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