Carbide scrap at 50.00 @ pound...

Oldschool
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Up from $ 6.50 @ year ago 

China is no longer supplying us / limiting us with Carbide.

Our manufacturing runs on it.

Buckle down on costs down the road.

MAGA !!

Lol......

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4/22/2026 5:11pm

Great ,that scum bag on afternoons will be stealing the shit he hasn't even burned up or broken yet. 

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4/22/2026 5:21pm

Great ,that scum bag on afternoons will be stealing the shit he hasn't even burned up or broken yet. 

We had a guy Stealing the brass wire coming off the wire EDM lol 

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4/22/2026 6:57pm

Crash those tools, boys! It's the best It's ever been!

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4/22/2026 7:44pm

Great ,that scum bag on afternoons will be stealing the shit he hasn't even burned up or broken yet. 

Oldschool wrote:

We had a guy Stealing the brass wire coming off the wire EDM lol 

Long story short ,2 guys stole a tractor from my work ,and this was after using the company account to have the engine rebuilt . Talk about balls.

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4/22/2026 9:04pm

Interesting that carbide scrap price has gone through the roof, yet new carbide tooling prices have stayed somewhat (emphasis on somewhat) reasonable. How long till new tooling pricing goes nuts? I've been buying a lot of tooling lately, hoping to get in while the prices are still OK after seeing the scrap price go nuts. 

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4/23/2026 3:45am
Luxon MX wrote:
Interesting that carbide scrap price has gone through the roof, yet new carbide tooling prices have stayed somewhat (emphasis on somewhat) reasonable. How long till new...

Interesting that carbide scrap price has gone through the roof, yet new carbide tooling prices have stayed somewhat (emphasis on somewhat) reasonable. How long till new tooling pricing goes nuts? I've been buying a lot of tooling lately, hoping to get in while the prices are still OK after seeing the scrap price go nuts. 

After reading this thread I checked my supplier and saw the same thing. I can't imagine that holds up.

I guess some new end mills will be ordered today...Early.

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4/23/2026 5:41am

Where are you selling scrap carbide?

4/23/2026 5:50am
Luxon MX wrote:
Interesting that carbide scrap price has gone through the roof, yet new carbide tooling prices have stayed somewhat (emphasis on somewhat) reasonable. How long till new...

Interesting that carbide scrap price has gone through the roof, yet new carbide tooling prices have stayed somewhat (emphasis on somewhat) reasonable. How long till new tooling pricing goes nuts? I've been buying a lot of tooling lately, hoping to get in while the prices are still OK after seeing the scrap price go nuts. 

SEEMEFIRST wrote:
After reading this thread I checked my supplier and saw the same thing. I can't imagine that holds up.I guess some new end mills will be...

After reading this thread I checked my supplier and saw the same thing. I can't imagine that holds up.

I guess some new end mills will be ordered today...Early.

Have you messed with the stuff HAAS is selling? Im not sure who makes it originally.  We've had great success using their endmills lately and you cant beat the price plus they always seem to have some kind of sale going on.

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4/23/2026 6:55am
Have you messed with the stuff HAAS is selling? Im not sure who makes it originally.  We've had great success using their endmills lately and you...

Have you messed with the stuff HAAS is selling? Im not sure who makes it originally.  We've had great success using their endmills lately and you cant beat the price plus they always seem to have some kind of sale going on.

It's OK. We buy Haas for some things, but have found some of it to be inconsistently sized and some of it doesn't last nearly as long as a name brand. 

Most of it looks to be YG1 re-branded, particularly the DLC coated drills and the carbide roughing mills. Likely the out of tolerance tooling that YG1 rejects. Plenty fine for roughing and most drilling, though. 

This rougher works OK for $74: https://www.haastooling.com/p/03-1927

but this one lasts twice as long for $100: https://www.helicaltool.com/products/3-flute-corner-radius-35-helix-variable-pitch-chipbreaker-rougher 

And at today's prices you get $15 back on the carbide scrap regardless!

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4/23/2026 8:42am

We have a couple hundred pounds of carbide cutters here at work!  Pizza party!

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4/23/2026 9:27am

Just got a quote for some used waterjet mixing tubes @$54 lb. Sending those useless bastards in for a cool $800plus check.

Thanks for the heads up guys!

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