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Peter wright anvil weight code1/15/2024 Please contact me, and I can give you an exact description of the anvil's dimensions. If you have any questions on this please contact me and I can go over the details and the specifics on the anvil you are buying. There are a small percentage of my latest shipment of 260# Classic anvils that will require some casting clean up. PW received letters of patent in 1852, so anything marked PATENT is after that year. If you see just P.WRIGHT or PETER WRIGHT and the weight, it's between 18. The vast majority of the anvils require very little work. This is a copy/paste from a conversation with a mate of mine who has a 232lb PW, I think it’s from a PW Anvils Facebook group. One of the reasons the anvils I sell are such a high quality value is that I leave it to the customer to dress the anvil (radius the edges, chamfer the hardy hole if desired and do a small amount of cleanup that is associated with a casting of any kind). You will have some clean up work to do in order to make the hardy hole one uniform size in some of the 260# anvils in my latest batch, to meet off the shelf tooling requirements. Anvils similarly need some dressing as well. Usually a new hammer has to have the edges radiused and the peen needs to be ground to blunt the sharp edges on it. This is similar to dressing a new hammer. Most new anvils require some degree of dressing and clean up by the first owner of the anvil. Those of us who have only experienced used anvils, assume that a good, clean used anvil arrived in it's present condition when first delivered to the first owner. To put this in perspective, most new anvils require some degree of dressing by the first owner. There were many anvil makers in England over 100 years ago. The shape of the base and the thickness of the top plate is consistent with a Peter Wright, but I don't see additional markings to confirm that. If buy off the shelf steel and weld you hardy tools, this will impact you. This would be consistent with your observed weight allowing for a few pounds lost from wear and rust. If you forge your hardy tools from old truck or car axles this should not have any impact on your tooling. These are cast steel anvils and there is some degree of variation in the 260 lb Classic anvil's hardy size. Dimensions of hardy holes in some of the 260 # anvils may vary by up to 1/8".
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