[TheForge] Re: Tin source?

[Mike Spencer]

> I need to re-tin a copper baking dish.

If you can find an industrial supply house that carries TinRite
(product of Canada Metal) you should try that. It's a mixture of pure
tin granules and an ammoniacal flux.

I've found it pretty easy to tin copper cookware with TinRite, much
easier and better results than when I tried to use tin bar and
straight ammonium chloride.

Thirty years ago I could buy it off the shelf in Halifax.  Two or
three years ago, it took me numerous phone calls to finally run down
the right Canada Metal guy and get a couple of pounds shipped.  I have
no idea why it was so hard to get them to sell me their product.  But
during the course of the phone calls, it emerged that, if I wanted
some real soon, the local industrial supply place could *re-import* a
can from some distributor in Arizona who had it on the shelf.  So they
*do* have some kind of US distribution with product in the pipeline.


FWIW,
- Mike

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