Fixing the Pritchel Hole on an Acciaio Anvil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Roy is fixing an inset pritchel hole in the Acciaio Anvil.
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I’d be curious to see how that heat affected the temper of the anvil….
I don't have a welder... yet. I was thinking about trying to rig up something similar to what you guys did with the hardy hole. And I love the hacks for the acciaio. Keep em coming! I'll be using the big Blu for the next 5 to 10 years till I get enough for a life anvil... secretly I want one of those monsters from anvil planet.. but he's in Italy... lol As always, great stuff.
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Glad you are enjoying them ☺️ hammer on my friend
Merry Christmas! I did the same thing to the bigger anvil a while ago and it was well worth it. I made a couple inserts for the hardy hole with square tubing and a big flat plate with a 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, and 1/2 sizes because the 3/4" pritchel hole was too big for the stuff I do. Keep up the great work!
Appreciate the one and done.. besides the weld issues this is a great simple solution for a irritating problem 🍻
Making the tools work best for us. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👏
No thank you Wayne for taking the time to watch 🙂
Thank you for this, as my only anvil, this has bothered me for about 2 years
Good idea! I don't have a welder and depending on whose anvil I'm using? I just whip out the handy dandy bolster plate and be done with it....
Merry Christmas an here's to a great new year ahead. Roy Very Interesting attempt there. Really informational and interesting video today. Can't wait to see what the new year holds for you and your family and the channel. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work Roy. Forge on. Keep making. God bless.
Thank you My friend and God bless you 🙂🎉 happy New year too
@@ChristCenteredIronworks your very welcome my friend.
Thanks for another great video Roy. I'm looking forward to the Harbor freight anvil make over. I keep trying to jack mine up and make it all high speed, just to see if it is worth it. I have to refinish it anyways so maybe I can put something together too. Hmmm😄✝️ thanks again
Seems to me that bumpout would be an easy thing to incorporate into the mold for future anvils if Acciaio is watching.
Mine are both (66 and 132) pretty hard… very unusual luck for me. I don’t want to mess with the heat treat so I’ll stick with my bolsters till I can get a Holland. If I did that mod I would stick weld hard face I suppose. Merry Christmas to you both, sorry I missed the giveaway. 😢
God Bless!
Sorry you missed It too 😞 but look on the bright side 😃 there's always next year 😊
Just wondering if it would make sense to weld that hole shut, maybe build up a cutting table there, and then drill a new pritchel hole on the other end behind the hardy hole? Even just filling the hole and making it all horn would seem better to me.
Nice clean up of the design Roy
Are you familiar with Centaur Forge? They have one that is made from a section of rail track that has been machined flat and claims to have been hardened. It also has an extension welded on for the hardie hole. As an aspiring smith, I don't know if I should go for the Centaur track anvil or just get the 66lb Acciaio
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
What wire did you use? Does it hold up , no cracks?
You use any special MIG wire, or just some basic mild steel stuff?
Our buddy has one of these. Overall a clone of an Italian pig but I don't like the location of the pritchel hole. The "square horn" or tapered heel is very useful for odd shaped stuff though.
would it not be easier to drill another hole at the other end of the anvil?
Yep, understand why you needed to do that!
Yeah that's One big design flaw.
Pretty sure I saw the washer on your ground clamp glowing in the video. Check that the connection is tight. This could be causing your welder trouble.
I appreciate that you mentioned preheating the anvil before welding; but did you say which filler wire material you used? Since you were welding on cast iron, for the first few passes at least, did you use a high nickel content?
This thing is cast steel, not cast iron. Cast or forged steel is infinitely more weldable than cast iron, and is easily done with common mild steel electrodes or wire. I’d be more inclined to use 7018, but I’m very old and set in my ways! I was a certified welder for 41 years repairing railroad equipment, and we were constantly welding on cast steel. Many wear items on railcars are made of cast steel and when they’re worn to their condemning limits, we would air arc or torch the old parts off and weld new ones back on with 7018 or flux cored/gas shielded wire. Some of these parts were in excess of 300lbs.!
Hey Roy. How long did you work to finish this hole? A worker told me this takes many ours of time. Regards
Good idea 😉
I know this video is kinda old but since the Doyle dropped. I definitely prefer the design and layout but still want the larger size. I was curious if anyone has drilled a Pritchett hole on these?
Very kuul work around for the pritchel hole as well as the previous work around for the Hardly!
Just curious. In your opinion, would there be any bennifits to filling the center void under the belly between the feet. Other than added mass/ weight?
Son was asking if he could fill w hard cast lead. Worried he may break the feet off. Idk maybe if the face was set in a few inches of circulated water it wouldn't effect heat treatment? Unsure here, of course there would be mechanical bond ridges added to keep it from just falling out LoL
God bless prosperous new Year
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Other than added weight no there wouldn't be any benefits unless you were to completely weld it solid And Then the effective Mass would change 🙂 God bless you sir for all your continued support and happy New year 🎉
@@ChristCenteredIronworks thank you Sir!
i want to see you review the 10 dollar a pound alec steele co 140 lbs anvil
It's terrible because it wasn't intended as a Pritchel Hole, it's a pass through for your socket wrench using a long socket extension to lag-bolt the base to your stand from above. But an excellent workaround you have for turning it into a workable Pritchel Hole.
Thanks for watching
Porous weld or not, you fixed the problem.
Thank you for the vote of confidence 🙂
Great idea, why would they offset the Pritchett hole like that. Just to say they had one.
Just bad design work
Say a person was gonna do this to a 135lb. And maybe put a sleeve in to shrink the pritchel a bit. What's a good common size for a pritchel hole? I'm thinking about having the hardy reduced to 1" while I'm at it
3/8" to 1/2" is a great size for small work
Great idea, probably no advantage to using hard facing rods since the anvil is not that hard. Maybe if you quenched or case hardened the anvil? 😉
LoL Justin don't tempt me 😉 might make great content....
Not that hard?!? Mine is pretty darn tough and hard. Several years of use and there is one tiny ding from where a girl was using a 12lb undressed sledge to strike for me and missed. I told her i would just make do, then I acquired a striking block shortly after for other folks swinging
@@wesleymccravy901 mostly just trying to push Roy to do an Acciaio hardening series.
@@justin_ray my Accacio anvil is between 50-55 Rockwell. That is exactly how hard you want an anvil
@@ChristCenteredIronworks is be very interested to see that
The weld problem was probably the material not the welder cast is renowned for being porous
Roy, I'm trying to get into blacksmithing/bladesmithing... Would this small anvil be a good choice? I'm on a VERY fixed income and it's really all I can afford so I'm hoping you say yes.
I've worked with someone who has the same one. It's plenty fine for you. It will dent easier but that is not the issue.
So! I need to do this too?
Do it if you want to or not 😏 your choice my friend
I got the 60 kilo one Roy. It's got the same issue. Do you think I could put a 3/4 plate with proper size hole in it and weld it in ?
Yes that could work just make sure you don't overdo the face as to soften It 🙂
Since these anvils are cast I'd be inclined to pre-heat the base material. 120 C should do the trick. I wouldn't go much more as it might affect the hardness of the face.
I probably wouldn't post heat unless I was going to heat treat the whole anvil again.
But I might use compressed air to cool the final weld run.
All of this anvil abuse must be leading up to a launch on New Year's?
You never know 😉
Seems like welding that close to the face would soften the face of the anvil
It might a little bit but the face was 54hrc before welded and the heat never even ran colors
Oh wow big improvement, how impressive. You made the anvil smaller. Big deal. (Iamjokingpleasedon'tkillme)
Now all you have to do is fill in that huge void under the center of the face. 😆🤣
Maybe part two 🤔 😏
You should have preheated it I've been a welder 45 years. Not Nona her husband Richard
Probably should of but considering this isn't a joint to be put under any real strain it most likely will be ok .. this anvil is for Jessica and her jewelry work. But Yes your right
Ha ha