Nothing Lasts Forever

[ChazzC]

Hi Guys,

Recycling electronics scrap, computer main boards, and plug in cards, mobile phones are big business today. Gold, platinum, silver and other metals that can be recovered are worth immeasurable amounts of money. I know that the value of broken scrapped carbide tooling is enormous. But the scrap merchants will take it all away for free.

But better than having to pay to get rid of it.

 

[Steamchick]

Hmmm. I haven't got any "broken scrapped carbide tooling"... (My wife never has "left-over wine for cooking"!!).
Somehow bits of disposable tips always seem to get brazed onto another bit of bar and ground into something useful - like a special boring bar - or whatever I need next that isn't in the boxes of tools I already have... (Inherited from 2 Grandfathers and my Dad). I once even had to deliberately break a carbide insert for the piece I wanted! ! Half stayed in a single piece, the broken bits of the other half gave me the little bit I wanted for a small boring bar cutting point! - Maybe I spend more making tools than the cost of buying, but it is a hobby,,,,
Scrap steel here is almost worthless, = not worth the petrol going to the scrap-yard - but all other metals get weighed-in - when I have re-cycled them to death!
The other day, a rusty lump of broken bolt and nut was recycled into the boss for a steel knob to replace a 5-year-old plastic knob on a gas tap.. (Finished piece 10mm dia x 8 mm long... - remaining stub 15mm long - It will get used - one day!).