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'Beam me up Scotty.'ДЄs to how much of this research is being done. The answer to this question will be required before we leap into intersteler travel and solve problems like fusion reactors and inexpensive superconductors. The number of combinations is literaly astronomical. However, we comonly use alloys with 3,4 and 5 ingrediants. The world's metalurgists spent a big part of the 1980's studying and publishing every binary alloy (pairs of metals in every proportion) in hopes of creating a data base to help solve the problem of property prediction. There are roughly 20 alloyable metals that can be mixed in any combination in any number in any proportion. Now if you want to be the Einstien of the 21st Century solve THAT problem! However, be forewarned, it is very much akin to the 'theory of everything' and is a VERY complicated problem. As a NASA metalurgist once told me, we are still in the 'heat it and beat it' era of metalurgy.

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Metalurgical research is a process of trial and error (mix, cast, forge, test.

Most metalurgists spend their time making sure a given batch of material is what it is supposed to be OR making sure it is made to be what it is supposed to be. There is metalurgy and there is metalurgy. As a result of massive cutbacks in the 1980's there were thousands of high tech engineers in the aerospace and partical accelerator materials field without jobs for a very long time. When programs are cut the labor intensive trial and error R&D department is the first thing cut. When large amounts of money is being spent on aerospace research the demand goes up. Materials Science and Metalurgy: As noted the demand is not great but steady. Kohlswa and many other cast steel anvil makers have proven that good steel is strong enough to support a relatively thin heel.

However, they are supposedly good cast steel as Frank noted. The Brooks pattern is rather dumpy and is characteristic of the shape of anvils designed to be made of low quality material. There is no stocking distributor in the US that I know of (a business oportunity). Kohlswa anvils are cast steel and come in a variety of patterns. Most of the Centaur anvils were good and Bill Pieh bought back the soft ones. I have a Kohlswa and have had others and like them. Centaur quit importing the anvils and now sells the English Brooks, Peddinghaus and several US made farrier brands. Anvils came in that were deemed too soft and the factory would not make them good (or so said Bill Pieh who is now deceased). In the 1980's Kohlswa had a reorganization and as a result had some trouble with quality control. Swedish Centaur: These anvils were made by Kohlswa for Bill Pieh of Centaur Forge in the 1970's and were branded as Centaur anvils. Other makers used scrap wrought that probably included some steel in the bodies of their forged anvils and seemed to have less trouble. PW bragged about the high quality NEW wrought iron they used for the bodies but my observation is that more PW's ended up sway backed than other anvils due to the high grade wrought. For one thing that old anvil has a relatively thin tool steel plate welded to the top, any thinning weakens the surface. Stephen, I agree with Frank don't try to level that PW.

The Peter Wright's 'saddle' is so slight, I wouldn't think it needed leveling. The heels are amazingly thick, which I don't care for. The holes were filled with tar to disguise them for shipping. I've seen one it was a poor casting with holes in the face. I imagine it has a clip horn, the semi-circular projection from the horn base. Stephen, The Centaur is either a 90 pound or 125 pound farriers' pattern. My question is should I set it up in my surface grinder andreturn the surface to a flat condition or should I leave it as is. The third is a Peter Wright it has about a 1/6 inch wear in the face.

These are both in new condition with no chipping or wear. the next is marked 1 14 CWT Brooks England and on the other side it is marked 64KGS it has the 1 1/4 hardie and a single pritchell hole. It is 28 5/8 inches long the face is 16 7/8 X 3 1/4 with a 1 inch hardie hole and two pritchell holes. The first is one marked Centaur Burlington Wisc Forge LTD Made in Sweden with the number 56 with the number 2 under that. I have three anvils I would like some information on.

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