On my way home from work this afternoon i thought ide pop into my mates scrapyard...1 for my daily mooch and 2 for a chat. Just finnishing my sniff and mooch around (you,ll be amazed what ive found in last 5 years) i found in the corner a metal bucket full of tungsten tooling tips all brandnew,allthough i have enough tooling to last into the next decade LOL i thought ide have a stab and make a bid on them so i was going to offer £30-£50 and sell half and keep half. "how much you after for these" i shouted over..."there sold" he shouted back......I was gobsmacked that he told me he had moved them on at current tungsten scrap prices at a little under £800 :shock: for a bucket of scrap.

800 :w00t: I am in the wrong job.

I've got some ali to weigh in soon so hope those prices have gone up aswel. Is that the scrappy where you got that coin operated machine from?

Tungsten has always been expensive, weird stuff to. A few years back maybe 7 years now, I snapped a tig welding tip piece in half, you only want half what they make it in. It scratched my skin like a cat scratch. The chap I was working with looked at it and said that will scar, I just laughed as it was literally a scratch. He reckoned so etching about tungsten causes it to get shitty.

Well he was right, the scar is still there to this day. It looks like I put a Stanley across my hand. Weird stuff.

I went to the local scrappers last week to weight in my 6x 300zx cats :) £25 each??? is that right? though they would be worth more

I've got some ali to weigh in soon so hope those prices have gone up aswel. Is that the scrappy where you got that coin operated machine from?

 

yea Tom but he,s not the best place for ally mate...go to spital dam behind Levers ,they pay more.

 

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Tungsten has always been expensive, weird stuff to. A few years back maybe 7 years now, I snapped a tig welding tip piece in half, you only want half what they make it in. It scratched my skin like a cat scratch. The chap I was working with looked at it and said that will scar, I just laughed as it was literally a scratch. He reckoned so etching about tungsten causes it to get shitty.

Well he was right, the scar is still there to this day. It looks like I put a Stanley across my hand. Weird stuff.

 

interesting mate..did it bleed or just a scratch.

There's one on borough road I go to, they never have any interesting stuff in there though.

800 :w00t: I am in the wrong job.

 

Me too......:eek:

I sold a tungsten carbide riveting dolly for 400 quid last year, was about 10 inches long by 3 inches square.

Thing weighed a ****ing ton !

Tungsten is the densest non precious metal on earth

I went to the local scrappers last week to weight in my 6x 300zx cats :) £25 each??? is that right? though they would be worth more

scrap yards sell them for 40 to 60 quid

scrap yards sell them for 40 to 60 quid

 

Thought I was getting ripped!