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We then hold the part at this temperature in molten salt until the Ausferrite is formed. This is done to avoid undesirable transformational products. Then, the part is cooled at a slow rate to around 650 F. We hold the part at this temperature long enough to saturate the microstructure with carbon. We then heat the part up in a controlled atmosphere to a temperature of 1600 F. The process used to cast the part must produce good nodularity and high nodule counts. Trigger elements such as tin, titanium, chrome, vanadium, and sulfur must be tightly controlled.

We first start with casting the part in a special alloy compensation that will react sufficiently to the special heat treat. Now, with the advent of state of the art metallurgy and heat treating, we have been able to virtually double these properties.ĪusSteel gets its remarkable properties from a special micro-structure developed by this sophisticated austempering heat treatment. Ductile Steel has been a favorite of design engineers for decades when they require much higher performance than cast iron.

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One of the most recently developed ferrous materials is AusSteel. Developed initially by Ford Motor Company for a powerful material for camshafts, AusSteel has now become a go-to engineered material when abrasion resistance plus toughness is required. We are happy to now bring this science to your tough anvil applications.īut what is AusSteel? It is a high strength, high wear resistant, high toughness, heat treated variation of Ductile steel.

Just like how you can combine elements together to make something greater than the sum of its parts, we struck out to execute the same with this astounding tool. An anvil is more than just a collection of shapes for forging, it's a work of art. The BIG BLU 150 ANVIL was designed over a decade ago as a collaborative effort with several of our partners in the community to bring all of the most iconic elements of the traditional Czech Anvil into one masterpiece in iron. This anvil is cast in a US foundry using top-grade US steel! Even better than that, we have made the investment to refine a process that is a marriage of age old European tradition and experience into the high tech science of the foundries we have evolved here in the USA.įor all of you who have a BLU anvil, thank you for supporting us on this journey, and for those who are about to make this the centerpiece of their metalworking trade, welcome to the family! In the end, the process is like nothing else out there. It took 4 years of painstaking research to arrive where we are today, consulting with literally hundreds of engineers and foundrymen from across the country. In 2017, Dean Curfman, the owner of Big BLU, made it his next challenge to bring the production of this anvil stateside.īut several things had to happen to make this dream a reality. but we didn't let the story end there, because we never stop trying to improve. So without the proof and the resources to go to engineers at an American foundry and ask for all these things, it was a clear choice at the time to have our anvil made by a seasoned European foundry that had hundreds of years of history-making anvils like ours.

After all, it may just be a block of steel, but it has got a lot going on: sharp corners that must withstand work hardening, cavities like the Hardie hole that must be precise and homogeneous, the overall structure must be dense, but not fully aligned. As you can imagine, American foundries cast with the best steel in the world, but the challenge is that they do not have the processes to cast, harden, and finish something as nuanced as an anvil. Just like how you can combine elements together to make something greater than the sum of its parts, we struck out to execute the same with this astounding tool.Īll that time ago, when we drafted the design and perfected the mold, we never imagined that we would be able to cast this anvil in the USA. The BIG BLU ANVILS were designed over a decade ago as a collaborative effort with several of our partners in the community to bring all of the most iconic elements of the traditional Czech Anvil into one masterpiece in iron.

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