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Carbide Tool Tips

Postby Hades12 » Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:19 pm

I have about 8 pounds of tool tips and need some where to sale them. where have you been saleing to?


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Re: Carbide Tool Tips

Postby scrapman1077 » Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:33 pm

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Re: Carbide Tool Tips

Postby Rosco » Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:28 pm

Large inserts good for knife sharpening when SHTF Trade
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Re: Carbide Tool Tips

Postby natsb88 » Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:20 pm

I'm curious about this too. I have 30 - 35 pounds of scrap carbide cutters and inserts at the shop.
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Re: Carbide Tool Tips

Postby mtldealer » Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:02 am

I'm paying around $10 a pound for CLEAN carbide inserts and drill bits. You need to be sure what you have is real carbide. Just because its yellow on the tip doesn't mean it's carbide. It could just be coated. I'll post some pictures in the morning of some different types. Most machine shops will use carbide... they also use tool steel. The difference in price between carbide and tool steel... Around $9.70 cents.
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Re: Carbide Tool Tips

Postby AGgressive Metal » Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:39 pm

I go through drill bits fairly regularly through my property inspection job because I often have to install/change locks which many times involves "breaking in" by drilling out the old one to let myself in. I try to use cobalt bits because they hold up the best drilling into steel - is there a re-sale value for these like there is with the carbide?
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Re: Carbide Tool Tips

Postby Zuluboy » Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:54 pm

I have accumulated some carbide over the years in my trade (approx 200 lbs I recon as I cannot pick up the bucket without throwing a hernia), having had to moonlight and provide my own tooling for various machining projects i was investigating the possibility of recouping some of the large amount of pennies i have had to spend buying this expensive tooling. Anyone have any suggestions?
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