copper pot tinning

ro palinca · Post by **ro palinca** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:31 pm

I must re-tin my big copper pot (50 liter) for making a canned food named zakuska (zacusca), it contain a lot of tomato and it is too acidic to be safe for use with pure copper pot. I bought pure tin ingot (99.9%), put the pot on charcoal, and started tinning, but the cotton I have don't resist well to the temperature inside and leave burn marks on the tin. Does anybody do this or know somebody and please tell me what can I use instead of cotton?
EDIT: here is a link to a video where a turk coppersmith do this to a smaller pot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXBsCOabS3U

Post by **pfshine** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:20 am

good god. I guess that gloves are outlawed in turkey as well as respirators. I sure as hell would not do that and Im a welder.

ro palinca · Post by **ro palinca** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:28 am

I do that outdoor and it is not nasty...at least if the wind don't blow the fumes from the NH4Cl direct in your direction. But do you have a solution for my problem?
PS : I am a welder too.

Post by **pfshine** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:12 am

not sure I do but it looks like the guy was wetting the rag in between spreading the tin

Post by **Coyote** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:01 pm

That dude has no nerve endings from his elbows down HOLY CRAP!!!

I would send your pot to him and let him do it

Coyote

Post by **bentstick** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:02 pm

Do you think he has been doing tinning for a few years!
I was a welder for 15 yrs, mainly pipe and boiler work now I are a carpenter breathing has been worse as carpenter!

Sorry for off topic ro,pfshine geese are getting breasted and froze!!!

ro palinca · Post by **ro palinca** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:18 pm

pfshine wrote:not sure I do but it looks like the guy was wetting the rag in between spreading the tin

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I dunno what to say, but water and molten metal is not a good combination + I think it will cool the tin under it and it will not flow.

Post by **Dnderhead** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:59 am

years ago they used to use lead as body filler and used a waxed wood paddle to spread it with.
you could also try fiberglass cloth.

ro palinca · Post by **ro palinca** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:37 am

Dnderhead wrote:years ago they used to use lead as body filler and used a waxed wood paddle to spread it with.
you could also try fiberglass cloth.

Thank's I will give it a try tomorrow

Post by **mash rookie** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:07 am

Cool Video! I like Dunders fiberglass idea. I also would dampen the rag (not wet).

If you can find a stainless steel wire brush, it will allow you to scrub in the tinning.

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