Cold Weld Cast

I had a cheapy 55# HF anvil I was using as a doorstop and thought I'd trick it out so I cut a 5/8 piece of steel, drilled and filed out a pritchel and hardie, drilled and tapped bolts. That would have sufficed.

However, I had some nickel rod laying around and I'd always heard you could cold weld something so I thought what the heck, not much invested in this so if it cracks open no big loss.

I lightly preheated the area to weld, following some instructions from Lincoln on cold welding...

Cold Weld Cast