Thread: repairing an anvil

Link below might be a place to start or have a good chance of some answers.

Blacksmithing Forum | I Forge Iron

http://www.anvilmag.com/smith/anvilres.htm

It really should be done by fusion welding - heating the whole thing up until it sparks, then hammering the face back on using the 'proper' flux. You would need an industrial blacksmith's shop for a furnace/forge big enough to heat that much metal, and a crane & tongs big enough to swing the anvil out of the fire to hammer.

The wrought iron body welds beautifully, the carbon steel face less so.

Anything else is just tacking around the edges & keeping your fingers crossed.

thanks fellas for the post's, i don't know what i was hoping to hear, just weld it up with a gp, i was afraid that i would have to heat it until sparkling, ive got a forge at home but there's no way no how i could do it in there, even if i could lift it into the forge i would burn 40kgs of coke getting there then try and get it out the forge without bbqing yourself. ive conviced myself to a degree that i can remove the face that has lifted with an angle grinder, heat the entire anvil with an lpg heating torch then weld it up with low hydrogen electrodes, something like a tc or fe61. after a long cooling down time possibly on top of the pot bell over night i can face it on the mill with a surface grinding stone i have obtained and made to fit the mill, it s the kind thats used to grind rail welds so it should take this task on easily and leave a nice finish.

if you can see any problems with what im thinking about doing please let me know.
thanks

If you have the welding gear to do the hard facing, that IS option No.3, but its a lot of rods if you are doing it with a stick welder - the method I saw in one book was for some sort of sprayer unit that went onto an Oxy torch & used a powdered metal that fused - no flux to chip off.

I remember reading about a guy making an avil and I'm pretty sure he used hardfacing MIG wire. From memory you need a 250amp minium welder. Maybe something to look into. Sorry I can't remember more details.
Stuart