welding to cast anvil

[Mike Davis]

is it possible to weld a peice of tool steel(6"x12")to a cast anvil?
it is a jet model 487665 73# anvil

 

[Blammo]

I Googled it up...But ?
Not much info..
I'd drill and tap, countersink the plate you want to use, and screw / bolt it on.
As soon as I see " cast", or " alloy". I steer clear of the welder.

 

[Stag & Steel]

Are you welding it on as a base plate? I think if you preheated and Tig welded it, that it would work. If it is some attachment that you are going to beat directly upon, I would bolt.
Jim

 

[fitzo]

Mike, read this for some pertinent info:

http://www.anvilfire.com/FAQs/anvil-3.htm

 

[mete]

Yes it's possible BUT you have to use the proper welding rod and you would have to preheat and post heat and an anvil will take lots of heat !!

 

[B Finnigan]

If you drilled and tapped the anvil to attach the tool steel plate you would also be able to replace it once it got dinged up. I have been conteplating doing that to my own anvil. Making a disposable face and flipping it over when the other side is dinged up. The other advantage would be that you just detach the face and take it a machine shop to be resurfaced instead of taking the whole anvil.

 

[Sweany]

if you drill and tap the plate to the top of the anvil and say you actually use it, eventually the bolts will break.

To weld the plate on the cast anvil, you will probably spend about as much as if you bought a real anvil. Special rod, pre heat... oh say 600d. keeping the anvil hot while you weld it and post heat. Not an easy weld to make.

THEN

Quenching and tempering the tool steel with out cracking the weld.

Then too you will have an air gap between the top plate and the cast anvil. Which will bow up if you weld both long sides of the plate.

Oh yeah you could hardface the thing, but then again time and money..spent...$$$

 

[Mike Davis]

thanks for the replies guys. i guess i will use this until i can find a good hardened anvil.