05-28-2014, 07:57 AM
A buddy of mine talked me into going to the scrap yard near his house.
The place had a big building full of pallet sized boxes, barels, and even buckets of various metals.
Since he had been there before, he lead me to the honey hole! Several 55 gal drums, half to 2/3 full of machining cutters of every description. Several of the cutters were broken, but not all. We got MT#2 and 3 drills, end mills, taps, center drills, spotting drills, and counter sinks. The mills were 2 and 4 flute, single and double ended, some roughers, ball ends, roundovers, in sizes from huge to 1/16. All were US, German, or Japanese made. Most we picked out were undamaged. I ended up with 53 mills alone. All for the scrap price of 25¢/pound. I bought 10 lbs.
Also got some 630 brass bar ends, and 2ea 3/4 aluminum plates, 10" of 2 1/4" aluminum bar. My total came to $42!
Now I can experiment more with 2 vs 4 flutes, roundovers and roughers.
They also had steel, stainless, most anything you could think of...
I'll be going back...
I've lived here for 18 years and never knew it was there!
Chuck
The place had a big building full of pallet sized boxes, barels, and even buckets of various metals.
Since he had been there before, he lead me to the honey hole! Several 55 gal drums, half to 2/3 full of machining cutters of every description. Several of the cutters were broken, but not all. We got MT#2 and 3 drills, end mills, taps, center drills, spotting drills, and counter sinks. The mills were 2 and 4 flute, single and double ended, some roughers, ball ends, roundovers, in sizes from huge to 1/16. All were US, German, or Japanese made. Most we picked out were undamaged. I ended up with 53 mills alone. All for the scrap price of 25¢/pound. I bought 10 lbs.
Also got some 630 brass bar ends, and 2ea 3/4 aluminum plates, 10" of 2 1/4" aluminum bar. My total came to $42!
Now I can experiment more with 2 vs 4 flutes, roundovers and roughers.
They also had steel, stainless, most anything you could think of...
I'll be going back...
I've lived here for 18 years and never knew it was there!
Chuck
Micromark 7x14 Lathe, X2 Mill , old Green 4x6 bandsaw
The difficult takes me a while, the impossible takes a little longer.
The difficult takes me a while, the impossible takes a little longer.