Bandit anvil retrofit

[Z'sTrees]

Anyone got an older style bandit with the angled anvil ever change it over to use the newer style flat one?

Seems as simple as drilling two holes for the adjustment bolts, but maybe I am over simplifying this. Sure would be nice to have 4 usable edges over just the one.

Old style:



Newer style:

 

[VenasNursery]

Anyone got an older style bandit with the angled anvil ever change it over to use the newer style flat one?

Seems as simple as drilling two holes for the adjustment bolts, but maybe I am over simplifying this. Sure would be nice to have 4 usable edges over just the one.

Old style:
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Newer style:
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Call bandit I would think they might have already updated that part #

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I got some hard facing welding rod and laid a bead in the edges. Then I ground the bead square.

the edge did NOT wear. If I did it again I’d hard face the edges then have a machine shop square the edges

I think I still have more Rod I’d sell if anyone is interested.

 

[Z'sTrees]

Right on thanks guys. I'll reach out to bandit.

I've heard of people laying down a bead and grinding it again. Sounds like a great idea. I'm just looking for more of an "off the shelf" approach. Basically so I can tell the guys to flip the anvil while they do the knives.

 

[Reach]

Right on thanks guys. I'll reach out to bandit.

I've heard of people laying down a bead and grinding it again. Sounds like a great idea. I'm just looking for more of an "off the shelf" approach. Basically so I can tell the guys to flip the anvil while they do the knives.

There’s probably a way to do it; the newer Bandits have the flat, double sided anvil on top which bolts to a nice heavy piece of angle iron down below.

I don’t think flipping the anvil at every knife change is necessary though, it’s rather time consuming to flip it and readjust it; we just do ours when it’s necessary, which is usually not more than about twice a year.

 

[evo]

I got some hard facing welding rod and laid a bead in the edges. Then I ground the bead square.

the edge did NOT wear. If I did it again I’d hard face the edges then have a machine shop square the edges

I think I still have more Rod I’d sell if anyone is interested.

I worked with a old morbark that had hard facing on the anvil.. a 1" chunk of the bead broke loose, luckily it was caught on a inspection. It was wiggly but still trapped in place.

 

[Reach]

I worked with a old morbark that had hard facing on the anvil.. a 1" chunk of the bead broke loose, luckily it was caught on a inspection. It was wiggly but still trapped in place.

That would be my concern with building up the face, hit that bead hard enough and it comes loose.

 

[oceans]

That anvil material must be more than just mild steel? More like AR400 or something?

I ran a CBI 4800 horizontal grinder and 2 different Hogzilla tub grinders for several years. I hard faced the teeth every night, more so on the CBI since each tooth was so big and costly. I do recall chunks missing from time to time. Nothing for a monster like those machines but definitely something for the anvil of a knife-based machine. I don’t think I’d do any hard facing.

Although…the outfit I was with did hard face the infeed surface face of their Morbark Model 30, then grind it smooth. There were no issues that I ever heard of resulting from that…