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"In particular" carbide buyers don't seem to like giving away simple secrets to making my scrap more valuable before they buy it


...I can't really say I blame them


And eesakiwi, tungsten...

So I posted awhile back asking about the best way of removing carbide mining compacts from rock drill bits...there wasn't really any one synonymous answer and more just suggestions than...

what im thinking DAVECCT (and please feel free to suggest anything) is i find a means of making as accurate a cut as possible with a metal saw (abbrasive blade only, no diamond tip blades) BEHIND the...

the mines own the only railway in and out of this town, no chance in hell id ever get scrap steel out on it either if it messes with their production lol, other than that the closest town east is a...

tried using heat today, at first i heated the steel around 1 carbide button until it was red hot than smacked it with a sledge but that didnt work. than i tried using a cutting torch to cut the steel...

A lot of the material needed for the mines is shipped in on the train that the iron ore is shipped out on, aside from that companies are closed minded towards production here and everything else is...

So even with absolutely no trace of braze left on the carbide it is sold as brazed scrap? Does the braze change the quality of the carbide once it has been cured to it, even though it had been...

Yup, it's a small mining town with no scrap yard and is a complete pain in the arse to get anything in or out of the town, makes it really easy to get ahold of a lot of scrap metals, just a matter of...

just what the seniors around the shop refer to it as lol, its gotta be a high class of steel if its getting used in mining although im not entirely sure which exact class it would be

and ya, there...

those are known as rotary drill bits they operate on electric rock drills and cut in to rock by turning at a very high velocity, typically 15" wide and entirely disposable...once the carbide buttons...

hello everybody! just a quick question here.

If i had say 20,000lbs or more of pure mining grade scrap steel how far have you known/heard of a scrap yard going to pick it up?


thanks for any...

hello everyone! just here to introduce myself, im from labrador city newfoundland...the place i consider the "fort mcmurray you have never heard of"

open pit mining for iron ore is the name of the...

Hello everybody! New member here looking for some information on removing carbide buttons on rock drill bits and now before anybody says "use the search button" I have and although I have read that...