How to Properly Mount an Anvil (Anchoring the 66lb Amazon Anvil)

hello everyone welcome back to the workshop so in this video we are going to properly mount our little anvil to the stand that we build it in video number one of this little series this is around the sixty-six pound Amazon anvil that I bought online I actually bought this anvil through eBay but they do sell them on Amazon and they do sell them on eBay as well I'll put some affiliate links down in the description be aware if you do click those links they go to help out the channel at no additional cost to you so full disclosure there they give me a little spiff if you go over there and you buy through those links if you want to take them to support the channel in that way but anyways the links for those you can check out the anvil and we'll be giving one of these away one of these anvils away every single month throughout the whole year of 2020 so be sure to check the check the description for all the details on that well without further ado let's just jump right into this project shall we okay so here we are at this little anvil it's all mounted up it's all sitting on top of our block here our anvil block but we need to take in a fix it because it's a lightweight anvil so it's gonna move around a whole bunch while we hammer on it what we're going to need for this project are we gonna be needing two pieces that are cut eight-and-a-half inches long that are inch and a half wide minimum that's the inch and a half wide bar stock preferably quarter inch thick now you can go a little thinner on that maybe do a Finch but it won't hold as well you'll get a lot of bowing or sagging and you can go thicker obviously if you just want if that's what you have on hand but you need an inch and a half wide minimum so this way that it mounts nicely on the feet and we'll get to that here in a second now that'll go but you'll need two pieces cut that way so I went ahead and already prepped this I have two pieces cut this is just mild steel eight and a half inches long again by and a half wide I went in three inches in from each end and then drilled two 3/8 inch holes Center punched it and then drilled two 3/8 inch holes to fit our lag bolts that'll bring us to our next part set this on the side the lag bolts the lag bolts themselves are 3/8 inch diameter and they are 6 inches long you really want I can't stress this enough you really want some pretty long lag bolts here don't scrimp on this portion if you go like an inch and a half or a 2 inch flag it will pull out it always will so you want to be able to really run this thing into the wood and make sure that there is just no chance whatsoever of this ever working itself back out of the lumber so we will need for 3/8 inch diameter by 6 inch long lag bolts and then we will need a tube of silicone now this is just like an interior exterior 100% silicone pretty simple you can get a high temp silicone if that's what you want to go at but this will never be actually submitted to anything of high temperature really so it's kind of like kind of useless you don't really need to do that silicone in of itself already has a fairly high temperature rating you know 3 400 degrees and this anvil is never going to reach that temperature certainly so just good interior exterior silicone is what you need again if you feel like you want to take and do some of the high temp stuff that can work as well but you'll need some of this and the nail is because I need to be able to puncture the silicone here so that will bring us to the first step in this process first step in this process is that we're going to go ahead and flip the anvil over and we are going to apply the silicone to the feet here now if this was a solid base all the way across it would actually work a lot better at dampening noise and things of that nature if you want to see a good video on this and how you could really silent up silence up and anvil John Switzer over at black bear Forge has a great video on this I'll try to put a link to that in the description and at the end of this video if you want to go check him out he's a great channel and he's a friend of this channel so definitely go check him out ciao mr. dhowan Switzer so let's go ahead and throw some silicone on this my reason for silicon e this anvil is really pretty simple one the anvil rings like a battle and so the harmonics are all in this back horn here and so I'll be using a magnet on this but I wanted to silicone this anvil down and just give it that extra little bit of you know security while it's sitting on the wood block and kind of help even out a few things on the base of it now the anvil itself has been milled flat on the base so that makes it really nice and this is just a good place again I can throw a little extra silicone in here that kind of becomes a rubber rubberized if you will a rubberized gasket of sorts that will then take and help the anvil not slip around so much it just kind of all works together if you will so we'll get rid of this I'm gonna throw it over on the floor somewhere out of the way and now we'll just go ahead and throw some silicone on this piece you don't have to go super crazy with the silicone but you want to have a good bed a silicone to sit on any excess you have you can always trim it away later if you want you know you don't want to go again you don't want to go too crazy do a little bit but then set also pro tip I like to squeeze the silicone just a little bit to get it kind of a booger running out there and then take the pressure off what that will allow that to do is that'll harden up and it will reseal the spout so you don't get a solid you know you waste an entire tube that way now we can set that all the way that's good to go get rid of popping up and we're ready to take and flip this anvil over now I want to express here to you it's pretty important that you get this kind of setting where you want so when you lift it up and over really try to aim you don't want to be doing too much smearing around you I'll get this all nasty with silicone so try to aim it where you want it and get it close get it pretty close the things I'm checking for is that it's even left to right it's even front to back and you want it to be somewhat square with the squareness of your stuff and the reason for that being is if it's not square with the squareness of your stump it's always going to mess with your eyes when you're trying to forge on this and get a piece parallel or square or straightened if this isn't square then a lot of your work is gonna come out crooked so now we need to take you put on our 2-inch pieces or inch and a half pieces and the reason why we want them to be inch and a half minimum is if you see how they lay on that Bank very nicely that's one benefit of this heö I think is how they spell it a chi oh I'll keep working or a Chou a chi oh I finally found out what that means some of my friends from across the pond translated it into its Italian or I believe it's Italian anyways it basically just says steel it's just letting you know that it's steel in nature but anyways get back to it you want this to be even with your feet in that nice Bank the benefits of this anvil is it has that nice Bank they're almost like you can dub tell this in now if you want to go all the way around with something like this you most certainly can you can go to the front and back just drill on the ends I prefer on the side though so we're gonna put it on the side here and then what we're gonna do is we're going to take a 3/8 inch paddle bit and we're gonna mark this so I'm gonna get it lined up nice make sure it's laying on there nice and square well that won't just quite yet it's just a little wider than what I want so what I'll do instead should have went one size up from those holes 3/8 the kerf was different so what I'll do instead is I'll mark it by getting these kind of roughed on there and that will give me a kind of a direction that I'm going with with these lag bolts if you will because we're gonna have to pre-drill this that's pretty much a must you're gonna have to pre-drill this so wherever that's at that's what we're going to pre-drill and you want to go about two inches in depth there that will really that will really help get this lined up that does a few things so now I can run this in just briefly just where it starts to grab a little bit so that's doing good so now I can run in the next piece where all that looks lined up and just use that as a as a template there we go take the other one out and I will pre-drill it the same way again if you drill at least two inches deep this is it will really really help you out on this thing and now we'll go ahead and put this in but we're not gonna drive these all the way yet we're just gonna drive them in to where they stop we don't want to drive them up tight the reason for that being is we need to do the opposite side so I will do the opposite side to that point and I'll come right back with you and we'll drive these home okay so this is why you don't want to drive them in home just yet because these are at a diagonal they will pull the anvil one way or the other so this is a great way of getting kind of your final adjustments to your anvil of where things need to be and how to take and wrench this thing down nice and tightly now I can already see that this anvil is shifted that way a little bit so I'm gonna take that front corner I'm going to drive it down and as you drive it down as you drive it down it pushes it back to square because I'm driving it first then I'm gonna drive this back corner down until we're square now we're square with the block now I can drive to the other corners down that'll give us nice and square because what ultimately this is doing is it pushing it in like so so let's go ahead and drive the rest of these down [Music] that anvil is not going anywhere guaranteed no matter how hard you hit on this thing knock it around beat it around hit it back and forth that's not going anywhere it's being compress it down like that to the wood it's not gonna go anywhere now we can travel with this anvil and pick it up by it it's never gonna go nowhere good and solid that way so that's basically it let's test it out see if it did anything for the ring well looky there really help with the ring Dittman that's not a proper hammer so it probably still ring away but just by mounting it good and solid with that silicon underneath it it has really helped to take and deaden the noise of it already and by the time I put that magnet on there it's gonna kill any sort of ring that I would have out of this and would all be really nice and quiet and just an absolute pleasure to work on versus just that really high pitch whiny ring like it had before okay some people like but I find is just absolutely annoying so that's it for today I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did you'll want to watch the next video in this series because I'll be making some tooling holders for the hardy tools that we'll be making I plan on making an entire suite of hardy tools that you can use with your anvils out there I know a lot of you beginner guys out there are make are having these anvils that's why I'm putting together this series it's a great starter anvil it's far cry better than anything I ever started with you all don't know how lucky and blessed you really are umm but yeah so I'm gonna be making a bunch of Hardy tool holders for a bunch of different harding holes for a bunch of different hardy tools i'll be showing you how to make those holders for your own sweatbox so definitely want to check out the next video in this series when it still alive so that's it for today thank you guys so much for watching and if you want to win one of these anvils you got to make sure you you check that description out for all the details of how to win one of these anvils once a month for all of 2020 that's it god bless you we'll catch you on the next one

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Keywords: setting up an anvil, anchoring an anvil, mounting an anvil, setting an anvil, anvil base, anvil base ideas, anvil mounting, anvil mounting ideas, mounting anvil stump, mount an anvil, how to mount an anvil to a stump

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Length: 16min 33sec (993 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 25 2020