What can you do with old saw blades. I’ve got some old carbide tipped 10″ tablesaw blades that are beyond resharpening and are junk to me. I hate to put them in a land fill. Can they be recycled? If so how and where? I also have some HSS blades that are brand new that I will never use. What to do with those? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.
Jeff
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Here in the UK there are charities which recycle tools of all kinds for use in third world countries. Donation points are at major building supplies depots and the like.
You could always build a couple of shop clocks for you and your wwing buddies.
No metal recycling at your landfill or transfer station? Ours has a big trailer we just toss any "real metal" into -- not aluminum cans, of course, but nearly anything else.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Some guys use them to make plow plane blades. You would need to know how to heat treat them properly, though. I just take mine to the local metal recycling center.
Walnutz
Ditto what Walnutz said. I have a scraper plane that I bought with a blade made from an old sawblade. Works fine.
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