The tungsten carbide powder which recycled from the scarps of cemented tungsten carbide produces the purity of 99%. Using this tungsten carbide powder to manufacture a cutting tool and test its properties are the main objective of this work. Based on the standard SNMG 120408 the cutting tool with the dimension of 12.7x12.7x4.76 is fabricated. With the 100 hours of Ball milling grinding Cobalt mixing and sintering at 1430 °C the experimental result is impressive. At 15% of mixedcobalt the cutting tool with the hardness of 2031.6 HV be able to cut S45C steel in the feed rate of 0.2 meters per revolution and 45 m/min in the cutting speed. Besides that it provides the depth of cut of 0.25 mm and when it reaches the cutting distance of 4200 mm the surface roughness is 3.65 μm. In comparison with the cutting tool made of imported tungsten carbide powder which has a hardness of 1254 HV it turned out that our cutting tool has the equivalent quality in terms of hardness and wear resistance. Hence this work is considered to be a material development and a tungsten carbide cutting tool manufacture those would be the vital base to lead us to a commercial production.

WC powder was obtained from recycling cemented carbide scraps. This metal power contained tungsten carbide (WC) at 89.17% titanium (Ti) at 4.90% tantalum (Ta) at 3.56% niobium (Nb) at 1.31% and molybdenum (Mo) at 0.93%. Its particle size and distribution was in the range of 0.03-85.31 µm. After quality improvement of the metal powder by ball milling screening and separating the compounds the result showed that the particle size of the metal powder was decreased to 0.01-0.10 µm (10-100 nm). The average size of the powdered particle was 28 nm. The tungsten powder was in more perfect condition by 95.85%

This study is meant to help develops better facilities for Tungsten Carbide powder production process. The 10 kg-capacity machine used was able to produce 85 -95.49 percent purity Tungsten carbide powder. When measured most of the particle sizes and distribution between 0.03-350.00 !lm. which are considered large sized. More than that those tungsten carbide particles are contaminated by other kinds of metal especially Cobalt binder. We have tried to improve the Tungsten Carbide manufacturing processes by combining more steps including ball milling drying and screening. After 24-hours ball milling process the result showed that we were able to produce smaller Tungsten Carbide paliicles sizing from 0.025 to 30.00 ~lm. The obtained particles are also rounder and with 99.50 percent purity. They are also easier to grade. The Tungsten Carbide manufacturing technology yet needs a further development to eventually produce the desired hard material.