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!).

 

[Richard Hed]

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.

I bid on a 55gal barrel of broken/used carbide tooling. It went WAY beyond reality. sNOt only that, but the shipping cost would have been enormoius because of the weight.

 

[BaronJ]

Hi Richard, ken,

I wish that I could discover how much gets paid for scrap carbide. The local scrappy seems to get a one ton skip filled and then it quickly disappears. On several occasions I've been told to take bits that I've wanted. I've also collected new unopened boxes of HSS tool bits for little or no money.

 

[L98fiero]

Hi Richard, ken,

I wish that I could discover how much gets paid for scrap carbide. The local scrappy seems to get a one ton skip filled and then it quickly disappears. On several occasions I've been told to take bits that I've wanted. I've also collected new unopened boxes of HSS tool bits for little or no money.

Totally different here, I just checked local(Canadian) prices, yellow brass is $3.30/pound, Tungsten Carbide is $10.00/pound, I dropped in at the local scrap yard and asked to BUY some yellow brass and they said they don't even sell it let alone give some away.

 

[Steamchick]

The local scrap yards here have all become "high tech" in their approach - because of legal reasons... or something. You need to sign forms when weighing-in, payment for scrap is by bankers draft to your account, you can't wander around, find a bit of metal then buy it - They don't sell except after sorting to proper metal merchants for re-cycling. I used to buy all my brass - as much as I wanted "for a Fiver" - even some bronze extrusions etc. - off-cuts from local machinists, etc. But all those small scrap yards have gone because of legislation, or whatever.
And when selling scrap to them, iron and steel is 75p/kg. copper and alloys £5 per kg (or whatever, daily rate changes). But each metal weighed-in must have at least £20 value before they'll give you a penny.
C'est la guerre?
K2

 

[Richard Hed]

The local scrap yards here have all become "high tech" in their approach - because of legal reasons... or something. You need to sign forms when weighing-in, payment for scrap is by bankers draft to your account, you can't wander around, find a bit of metal then buy it - They don't sell except after sorting to proper metal merchants for re-cycling. I used to buy all my brass - as much as I wanted "for a Fiver" - even some bronze extrusions etc. - off-cuts from local machinists, etc. But all those small scrap yards have gone because of legislation, or whatever.
And when selling scrap to them, iron and steel is 75p/kg. copper and alloys £5 per kg (or whatever, daily rate changes). But each metal weighed-in must have at least £20 value before they'll give you a penny.
C'est la guerre?
K2

Yes, that happened in MOses Lake, that is, the Soviet of Washington, but it was becqause of so much theiving that the Soviet passed an ID law, so stolen metals might be possible to track. One of my local scrap yards really didn't like it, and neither did I when it first started. But now, I don't feel that way. It helps stop theiving.