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One of my pet peeves is to walk into a shop and see, on
each and every horizontal bench surface next to a machine, a handful or
two (or three!) of used, burnt, failed, worn and unidentifed carbide
inserts.
 It's like they are the nest of an invisible shop bird, who builds nests everywhere in hope of raising a family.
I never see any eggs in these nests though. just plenty of carbide.
[The materials in these inserts needs to be recycled. DO IT NOW!]
On my last trip to the West coast, I stopped in to visit the local Sandvik Facility in Cypress, California.
Machining Applications Engineer Grant Hughson showed me some of the
advanced work that they were doing for customers. (It involved making
large chunks of Titanium submit to the will of the engineers through
some highly unusual milling pathways using some unique inserts. And they
demonstrated an acoustic dampening system that attenuates vibration
while in the cut. And a whole bunch of other cool, use it to make the Death Star kind of technology.) And he showed me the Sandvik Carbide Recycling program.
[Recycling carbide makes sense for your shop and the environment.]
But the simple elegance and utility of the Sandvik Recycling Program hit my nerve.
I JUST HATE seeing unidentified, partially used, or completely used carbide inserts just lying around in a work area.
NO GOOD THING CAN HAPPEN WITH THEM IN ONE'S WORKSPACE.
So take Grant's advice and get that used carbide collected, contained, and recycled.
Editor's Note: CR4 would like to thank Milo for sharing this blog entry, which originally appeared here.
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