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Only been 2 years and I finally got it mounted!
kevincaron -
Friday, August 14, 2009 - 6:41pm
anvil | welded steel | Other Metal Gallery  Been sitting on the work bench for 2 years now. Finally got a hair across my ... and did something about it. Start with a harrow dish, weld on a 6x6 (I think) thick wall box tube and top with a piece of 1/2 inch plate. Set anvil on top and add clamps to hold in place. Add some hammer holders and all done. Only took a few minutes, why did it take 2 years????? Oh well, enough screwing around, back to work....  How does the magnet stop the
kevincaron -
Friday, August 14, 2009 - 6:59pm
How does the magnet stop the ringing?? Great idea on the silicone, have to keep that in mind. Course there is so much noise with the compressors and the radio and traffic I can barely hear the ring. Or I am going deaf....  Well, if you're naything
Rich Waugh -
Friday, August 14, 2009 - 7:03pm
Well, if you're naything like me, you ARE going deaf. I'm supposed to e wearing hearing aids, in fact. Too many loud noises for too long, the doc said. Good idea to avoid all you can and wearing hearing protection for those you can't. The magnet seems to dampen the harmonic vibrations. It sure does work, especially the ones out of hard drives. Speaker magnets, no matter how big, don't seem to work nearly as well. You can try sticking something in the hardy hole to get an idea of the damping effect - the magnet is better by far. Rich Cool, I will check it out
kevincaron -
Friday, August 14, 2009 - 7:07pm
Cool, I will check it out and let everyone know....  Hard drive magnet
Stephen Fitz-Gerald -
Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 11:33am
Stephen Fitz-Gerald That is the coolest trick Rich... Stephen, With the magnet,
Rich Waugh -
Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 12:00pm
Stephen, With the magnet, the anvil mounting method doesn't matter at all. I use one on my little 100# Peter Wright demo anvil, because that thing will cause impairment in minutes without something to quiet it down. Since it's a portable anvil, it just sits in a fitted depression in a wooden stand, no hold-downs on the feet or anything. When I do a public demo, I generally start out with the magnet on the foot of the anvil where it does nothing to quiet the thing down. The anvil rings like mad. Once I've drawn a crowd with the racket, I slap the magnet under the heel so I can work and talk at the same time and folks can hear me. Just like having a volume control on a PA system. Rich It's my belief that the
Rich Waugh -
Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 5:18pm
It's my belief that the strong magnetic field dampens the resonance in the steel of the anvil, the same way that the magnet in a speaker induces resonance in a voice coil. It is definitely not the mass of the magnet - even a tiny little one will have some effect, but if you go to a very massive, but less powerful magnet, the effect is not as great. Rich |
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Kevin, When the ringing of
Kevin,
When the ringing of that anvil becomes more than you can stand, you might try bedding it on a layer of heavy-duty silicone adhesive caulking compound. I find this deadens almost any anvil. An interim measure is to get a neodymium magnet (li9ke the ones salvaged from old hard drives) and stick it under the heel
Good job!
Rich