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Know your carbide before it leaves the shop

These carbide scrap guides are written for the person holding the bucket: what is in it, how to sort it, and what the law in our pickup states asks of you. Read one, then send photos through the quote form.

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Guides

A small magnet held over used carbide inserts and end mills, with one steel drill bit stuck to it

Is tungsten carbide magnetic?

What a magnet can and cannot tell you

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How to identify carbide

Telling carbide from steel and HSS in a toolbox

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Carbide scrap sorted into heaps on a steel table: round tools, inserts, brazed bits on steel shanks and a jar of grinding sludge

Sorting carbide scrap

What to keep together, what to separate, and why

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Scrap metal laws in CA, AZ, UT and NV

ID, records, holds and cash rules where we pick up

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Four guides, in the order most sellers need them

Start with telling carbide from high-speed steel and plain steel, because they look alike in a drawer. The magnet guide explains why a magnet alone cannot settle that question. The sorting guide turns a mixed pile into groups we can quote one by one. The last guide covers what California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada ask of anyone selling scrap metal, which matters when we come to pick up.

Every guide sticks to published sources and links them, so you can check a claim before you act on it. For a piece none of them covers, email help@carbidebuyersusa.com with a photo, or call (877) 899-5778.

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How to identify carbide

Telling carbide from steel and HSS in a toolbox

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Carbide scrap sorted into heaps on a steel table: round tools, inserts, brazed bits on steel shanks and a jar of grinding sludge

Sorting carbide scrap

What to keep together, what to separate, and why

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Carbide we buy

Carbide in every form, plus exotic metals and alloys

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Selling steps

From photos and a weight to getting paid

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Ready to sell your carbide?

Send a few photos and a rough weight. From any state, you ship it and we cover the shipping; in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, we drive out to you.

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