Machine Tool Recyclers

At Machine Tool Recyclers, we buy carbide, and offer top scrap carbide prices and immediate

payment. Get cash for your carbide--start now.

Scrap, used, old, obsolete high-speed steel or tungsten carbide tooling:

drills, endmills, inserts, taps, router bits, etc

Wear parts like compacts, mining bits and saw tips

Drawing dies, stamping dies, nozzels

Soft carbide scrap / grinding sludge (payment after analysis—about 2 weeks)

Soft carbide scrap (swarf) recycling—how do

you get paid:

Shipping usually brings some of the coolant to the top. We remove this excess top oil before

sampling.

When your shipment arrives, core samples are taken and sent to an independent lab for analysis.

This is the proper way, as the heavier--and thus more valuable--material will have settled to the

bottom. When the analysis comes back it might read something like:

12.5% moisture 05.7% cobalt 19.8% other elements 74.5% tungsten

1,750# x 74.5% = 1,304# tungsten contained (sometimes called "tungsten units) 1,304# x $10.00 = $13,040 paid (typically in 2 or 3 weeks)

Tungsten carbide grinding sludge

Can you tell the quality of the carbide soft scrap without sending it to a lab?

No, you cannot.

A niton gun reading is likely to be way off

But because tungsten carbide sludge is so heavy, you can estimate the quality of the carbide sludge by

its weight.

Very heavy is very good:

not so heavy is not so good.

Soft scrap quality guesstimater

<— 55 gallon drum almost full

2000 lbs = 40 lbs / gallon very good

&nbsp1200 lbs = 24 lbs / gallon

might be ok,

depends on moisture and other

elements

600 lbs = 12lbs / gallon not so good;

water = 8 lbs / gallon

Shipment √ list:

Gravity 101: View from the Side

Palletizing a barrel raises

its center of gravity.

Shipping less than full

lowers the center of gravity

Shipping less than full places less stress on your containers.

No steel drum is UN rated to carry 3000 pounds of scrap carbide.

A full 55 gallon drum on a pallet is top heavy.

ent √ list:

Heavy duty pallet, easily sufficient for the load. Load centered, balanced and secured. Containers filled below capacity; weight even. Each container’s lid tightly secured. Steel strapped in all three dimensions: Around; Back and forth; Across FedEx shipping label attached; gross, tare and net clearly marked.

Contact Us

Machine Tool Recyclers Inc

2005 Granart Road,

Sugar Grove IL 60554 630-964-5030

Email: mtri@machinetoolrecyclers.com

http://www.machinetoolrecyclers.com/