Old Railway Line

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Great video of using what appears to be a section of old railway line. (looks very nice quality stuff to machine)

Rail steel seems to be reasonably high carbon (0.4 - 0.8% or so), so can be hardened after machining.

That one's looks a bit chunky in section to me to be made from railway line but making anvils from line seems to be quite a popular activity.

Murray

The "chunky" rail is probably used on mobile cranes not locomotives.

Paul.

That's quite the milling machine he has there. Expect it to take longer on your SX2 at home.

Here's another railway related anvil, made from the square head of a 1" bolt.

Ian S C

Can,t see too many guys making one of these,not in our shops,anyway.

Seems a lot of work to put in to produce something so useless,just nice to look at.

As an aside,that is one big,big machine!

Definitely crane rail. Used to use a similar profile for overhead cranes in a steelworks where I worked many years ago.

Peter

Yes,I can see that vice be a bit more useful.

Excellent skills, excellent machine, with an all angle table. Excuse Me while I go drool over the sink.

Train railway steel is incredibly hard especially the top were the train runs. Even a disc cutter has trouble cutting it. I assume this has been annealed?

Looks more like a horizontal borer?

Andrew

Never knew there was such a thing as an angled table. Dont think I,d have room for that. Perhaps if I knocked out the end wall and moved a few things around and --------------------------------------------------------- Well,I can dream,can,t I?

Looks like he owns that Gaff and can afford to play around.

Andrew's right. Looks very like this horizontal boring / facing machine, drool...

That,my friends,is what we should be aiming for. ! Forget your mini mills and your 3 1/2" lathes,this is the way to go!

No more fooling around with "light" cuts,just get stuck in there and chop lumps off,right away.

So,let us join together and knock out our end walls,side walls,back walls or whatever,never mind SWMBO. or the cost of running such equipment,it,s all in a good cause !

Seems to me that this guy is on the wrong site!

Now,where did I put that lump of 24"X 12" X 6" that I want to work on?,must be somewhere,perhaps behind the 4 High Mill?

Nice job; but did he make it in works time, or in his own time with boss's permission to use machine?

George

My guess is that he owns the joint,simple as that !

Or else,he has a very understanding foreman,not like the ones I remember .

A similar anvil was on Chesterfield Market on Thursday. The foot was left as it came, so it was clearly a piece of heavy duty steel rail.

Geoff