woodchucker wrote:
Was picking up some moisture filters for the compressor I rebuilt.
Finally saw the 15 lb cast iron anvil at HF ... they haven't had them
in stock.

Always wanted a place to bang metal w/o ruining my workbench.
So I clean this puppy off and try peening a piece of metal.. I start
seeing the metal's shape appear in the anvil. Looks like the anvil is
too soft.. Then I just hit the anvil with the ball peen and it dents.

Any of you know if this is propper, or too soft???

Don't know Jeff - I work some pretty thick steel over just a saw horse with
a 2x4 top. If I have to heat it too hot then I work it over something
better - my vise, or something else that is appropriate. But - I've
certainly peened very heaviy on my HF vise anvil end with no similar sorts
of problems. I would not have believed that the anvil on my vise was of any
special material, or even that it would be better than what you bought - but
who knows? I'll say this - I have beat the **** out of steel on that anvil
and have never seen any distortion or malformation. Maybe they have changed
the materials since I bought mine.

I guess my comments don't really help your question much - sorry. Just
saying that I do not have a similar problem witha completely different
product... oh hell... go figure...

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-Mike-