[TheForge] Re: tinsmithing books and tools

[terry l. ridder]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Mike Spencer wrote:

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> Canada Metal makes a product called Tin-Rite that is pure tin [1] and
> flux.
>

mike, are canada metal pacific limited and canada metal eastern limited
the same company? i found the tinrite #41 tinning compound on the canada
metal pacific limited web site. i did find the msds for tinrite #41 and
it is tin powder, ammonium chloride, and zinc chloride. i may just
barter some of my copper for a bar or two of pure tin.

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> - Mike
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> [1]  They say it's pure tin except for  flux components that fume
>     or wash off.  I haven't had it analysed myself.  But I've been
>     using cookware tinned with it for ca. 20 years. And I had a
>     heavy metal clinical workup about 10 years ago that showed no
>     deviation from normal.  FWIW.
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