Anyone interested in “used” / “timed out” carbide tooling?

[MiiisterAnderson]

Interested and tagged for more details.

 

[Reelman1]

Yep!

 

[guannaone]

I would be interested.

 

[mdw717]

There used to be large warehouse near Seattle where Boeing sold surplus/used tools, shop and office fixtures, etc. It was a great place to outfit a small shop or garage. You could usually find just about ANYTHING there. Sadly they closed. I would think you'd need a large customer base (like the Seattle metro area) to make your efforts worthwhile. I think most people would want to see what they are buying...unless prices are cheap enough to support throw away culling.
I would consider ebay as another option.

 

[livetohunt]

We're planning on using EBay. And only about 3-5% of our tools are still usable. We're not trying to sell 100k of used carbide a month

 

[Dkcampbl]

Interested, thanks

 

[sailorjim]

I work at a very large machine shop as a day job. We go thru roughly $100,000 in carbide inserts, drills and endmills every month. A lot of parts we make we "time out" tools due to surface finish requirements, light tool wear, etc.

We're tossing around the idea of perhaps selling bags of lightly used inserts, and endmills. They would all be more than useful. I have a bunch of stuff already set aside. And if your wondering about the condition of the tools... I've finish turned about 300 muzzle brake blanks with one of the "timed out" 4 sided inserts.

Would love some feedback whether or not gunsmiths, or just garage tinkerers would be interested in this. Would probably be like $100 for a small bag, but new the tooling would be $500 or more.

Photo attached is a hoard of endmills I amassed after a year or so.

I'm not 100% if we will go thru with this, but I hate seeing good condition tools get sold as scrap. Plus they are trying to cut tooling cost and I see this as a good option.

Ken View attachment 264990

Yes, let me know if this progresses.

 

[bamban]

Put me down for ball the end mills, 3/16, 3/8, 5/16 end mills.

 

[Baker Alvin]

interested in 4 ea size assortment if a possibility?
I had a yard sale I went to for several years and he had similar tooling, but that went away.

 

[lrmc73]

I would also be interested Lee

 

[ntsqd]

There used to be large warehouse near Seattle where Boeing sold surplus/used tools, shop and office fixtures, etc. It was a great place to outfit a small shop or garage. You could usually find just about ANYTHING there. Sadly they closed. I would think you'd need a large customer base (like the Seattle metro area) to make your efforts worthwhile. I think most people would want to see what they are buying...unless prices are cheap enough to support throw away culling.
I would consider ebay as another option.

I have a bag of air-frame rivet drills from there. Odd (to me) QD holder, but they chuck up just fine and are still excellent drills.

I too, am interested in some gently used carbide tooling. Been waiting on a carbide drill for a couple days, need it to finish making a Weldon chuck in a custom Dana 60 spindle boring jig.

 

[BoxMag1]

Sounds like it would be a good deal for everyone involved. The only concern I could see is selling "bags" of stuff. I would hate the idea of all the edges clanking against each other during shipping. Any type of individual wrapping involved?

 

[livetohunt]

It would be in a bag, but tightly packaged so they don't move around at all. We can't put too much time into it, but we would hoard tools for 4 or 6 months then randomly bag a bunch of them and post them for sale on eBay. Here's a photo of some inserts I have in my shop, would be just like this.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

Yes I want some. I put a PM to you earlier
Thanks
Len
USMC
Semper Fi