Carbide End Mills & Drill Bits Buyers
We buy scrap solid carbide tooling of all shapes and sizes. Get paid competitive prices per pound for chipped, broken, or worn-out machinery tooling.
Turn Spent Solid Tooling Into Working Capital
Solid carbide cutting tools like carbide end mills, carbide drills, and reamers represent the highest-grade tungsten carbide scrap. Manufactured with premium sub-micron grain structures to withstand intense heat and friction, these industrial cutting tools are highly prized by metal refiners.
Whether you are a carbide tool manufacturer, a carbide tool maker, or run a local tool shop or machine shop, you likely accumulate boxes of chipped, worn-out, and used carbide tools. If your shop performs tool resharpening or carbide tool regrinding (whether manually or using an automated carbide tool regrinding machine), we purchase all your scrap waste, spent tools, and residual carbide grinding wheel fragments. You can learn more about how this material is processed on our carbide recycling process page.
Types of Solid Carbide Tools We Purchase
We accept all brands, coatings (TiAlN, AlTiN, TiN), sizes, and states of solid tooling:
- ✓ Solid Carbide End MillsFlat, ball nose, corner radius, roughing end mills of all diameters.
- ✓ Carbide Drill BitsTwist drills, indexable drill heads, micro-drills, masonry/metal drills.
- ✓ Carbide Blanks & RodsUnused blanks, carbide blanks rods, preforms, and round stock.
- ✓ Reamers & TapsSolid carbide thread mills, spiral taps, precision reamers.
- ✓ Specialty Industrial CarbideCarbide burrs, routers, woodworking bits, custom milling cutters, and industrial carbide tooling.
Sorting & Cleanliness Requirements
To get paid the maximum rate for your scrap end mills and drill bits, check these quick details:
- No High-Speed Steel (HSS): High-speed steel tools are significantly less valuable than solid carbide. You can identify HSS tools by using a magnet (solid carbide is only weakly magnetic due to cobalt content, whereas steel is highly magnetic). HSS tools also feel much lighter than solid carbide tools of the same size.
- Separate Steel Shanks: If you have brazed tools (carbide heads welded onto steel shanks), please keep them in a separate pile. They will be valued under our mixed/brazed pricing tier.
- Keep Containers Organized: Storing your spent mills in heavy plastic buckets or original tool tubes makes transport, scaling, and processing fast and easy.
💡 Did you know?
- •Solid carbide tooling has a density of 14.5 g/cm³, which is double that of tool steel.
- •A simple spark test can verify carbide: grinding carbide creates short, dark-red sparks rather than long yellow sparks.
- •Removing heat-shrink steel adapters from carbide shanks ensures you receive the clean carbide price tier.
- •We utilize certified scale readings at your location so you are present during all weighings.