TIL you can actually melt down a cheap anvil if you heat it wrong

I got a $40 anvil off Craigslist last month and figured I'd try forge welding on it without checking the steel type. After one pass the face started pooling like butter and now I've got a lumpy mess with a crater in the middle. Anyone else ruin a tool by assuming it was high carbon when it was just cast iron?

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gibson.elizabeth16d ago

Learning that the hard way too.

west.anna16d ago

Ignored mine so hard I got a PhD in denial before I finally listened.

phoenix2916d ago

I read a study saying 80% of people regret ignoring early warning signs.