Tungsten carbide recycling

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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 analysisabout 2
weeks) Soft carbide scrap (swarf) recyclinghow
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 05.7 19.8 74.5
moisture cobalt other elements 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)
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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
lt 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
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Shipment v list
ent v list Heavy duty pallet, easily sufficient
for the load. Load centered, balanced and
secured. Containers filled below capacity weight
even. Each containers lid tightly secured. Steel
strapped in all three dimensions Around Back
and forth Across FedEx shipping label attached
gross, tare and net clearly marked.
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.
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Contact Us
Machine Tool Recyclers Inc 2005 Granart
Road, Sugar Grove IL 60554 630-964-5030 Email
mtri_at_machinetoolrecyclers.com http//www.machine
toolrecyclers.com/