Save your Swarf!

[VicParticipant @vic]

 

https://youtu.be/jVWhtnK0Wm4

And don’t forget your safety sandals. 😮

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

And still the stuff that these guys turn out never fails to amaze me.

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

My old firm used to have about six swarf skips of different sizes for mostly steel and aluminium and a small one for maraging steel and one for titanium. The swarf was worth quite a lot of money to be recycled.

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

We have an aircraft component factory close to us (Ratier Aero part of the Collins group). On a recent open day we took in a tour of the workshops where the larger DNC machines collect their own swarf, extract the coolant from it, then wash and dry it. Swarf is then automatically collected and stored by material type for eventual sale. As you may guess, even the wash fluid is processed, cleaned and re-used!

At the assembly benches, all tools required for a specific job are drawn from stores as a kit, used and returned for inspection and re-use etc.  No personal tools are allowed at the workbench.

[Clock polisherParticipant @clockpolisher]

Having worked at an electric arc steelworks I used to watch in awe as 40 tons of “oily turnings” was dropped into a furnace. This was usually done later in the melting process so the furnace already contained a serious amount of fully molten steel, above 1650 degrees centigrade.

The resultant fireball was impressive to say the least and usually killed a few pigeons roosting in the roof.

Ah, memories.

David

 

 

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

My swarf is put into empty cleaned food tins, and hammered down with a length of 1 1/2″ bar before the lid is inserted and the sides hammered down, in sequence,

The filled tins are then sent for recycling.

Brass swarf being tiny pieces ise swept into a plastic bag before taken, eventually to a scrap yard, in the hope of earning a little..

Howard

[Howard Lewis]

On Howard Lewis Said:

My swarf is put into empty cleaned food tins, and hammered down with a length of 1 1/2″ bar before the lid is inserted and the sides hammered down, in sequence,

The filled tins are then sent for recycling.

Brass swarf being tiny pieces ise swept into a plastic bag before taken, eventually to a scrap yard, in the hope of earning a little..

Howard

Hello Howard.  I wish it were that simple around here.  The scrappies don’t seem to want small quantities, and even if they did, the remuneration tends to be pitiful.  Can’t say if it’s the same elsewhere.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

https://www.ukmetals.co.uk/scrap-metal-prices/

MichaelG.

[Grizzly bearParticipant @grizzlybear]

Brilliant, thank you.

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