Beginner Blacksmithing Anvils And Tongs

Used in

• Chapter 2 The City Is a Mine
• Chapter 3 The Knife

The rows that check it

• 6 confirmed
• 1 amended
• 1 dropped
• 5 marked for safety

• I3 amended Safety Carbon monoxide from the charcoal fire kills without smell in an hour at the levels a closed workshop reaches; 400 ppm kills within an hour; forge outdoors or in a shed open at …
• I6 confirmed Safety Grinder: guard on, never above rated speed, never a cracked wheel, light pressure; safety glasses; cotton or wool, never synthetics; water and sand at hand
• I8 confirmed Safety Never quench an unknown steel in water: it cracks; warm oil
• I9 dropped Safety An undamped anvil takes the smith's hearing within a few years; silicone bed, chain, earmuffs regardless
• K6 confirmed Safety Never quench a file, spring or blade in water
• I44 confirmed Anvil: rail flat flexes like a leaf spring and the crowned head lets steel skid; rail on end an unbroken column, half buried; forklift tine 42CrMo4 at about 30 HRC; 20:1 hammer …
• I45 confirmed Anvil face at knuckle height with the arm hanging
• K19 confirmed The tongs: rule of 90 degrees, three set-downs, half-face blows, boss punched hot, mild rivet peened, joint freed at dull red, jaws closed round the stock; bars 12 to 14 mm, 40 …

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Iron and steel Tools and their making