Powdered tin.

[HABCAN]

Reloading partner found and donated an 8oz. package of powdered tin to help our molds fill out. With LEE 10 lb. pot on highest setting, using lots of powdered soap for steroids and stirring like mad, it still will neither melt nor alloy a half-teaspoon into the WW mix. Any helps, alloy gurus??

[Dusty Bannister]

Not a guru, but uou might try a dab of beeswax melted into the tin powder to act as a wetting agent. I would not have thought to try powdered soap with tin powder. I would have expected the soap to encourage the lead to release the dust from the melt.

Bill Ferguson mentioned in his posts to the CB-L list that dust and fines of antimony were hard to get to go into solution without a good flux. I would expect some of the same issues with powdered tin. Try it and see.

[BattleRife]

People have lots of colloquial names for materials, most of which are no indication of what their actual chemistry is.

For example, "nickel-silver" brazing rod contains no silver, and not much nickel. "Tin roof", "tin cans" and "tin foil" contain absolutely zero tin.

What I am hinting at is that I don't know where you got the label "powdered tin" from but what you have is almost certainly not tin metal in powder form.

[OuchHot!]

I have to agree, this sure does not sound like tin.

[merlin101]

I have to agree, this sure does not sound like tin.

My thoughts also. It's something other then tin

[Mitch]

I agree don't sound like Tin.Tin mets at lower temp that pure lead so it should mix in with no problem.i would take a magnet to it and see.Like said above "tin roofing" is nothing more than steel."tin foil" is amuminum and neither of these is Tin metal.check with your partner and find out what his source is for this "powdered tin".good luck

[TexasGrunt]

As said it's not tin. Tin melts at a much lower temperature than lead.

[HABCAN]

Came from Russia...............and it's not magnetic, just bloody expensive.

[TexasGrunt]

Tin from Rotometals is about $20 a lb. What you got is not tin, that makes it really expensive.

[country gent]

It could be T.I.N. its a coating used on high wear cutters and industrial parts. I cant remember the entire actual name but its titanium ***** nitride coating and is a gold color on the tooling. It has a very high melt point and is very hard

[rancher1913]

that is powdered hard facing material, you apply it with a oxy/act torch to metal, yes it is expensive but it works great on plow shares to rebuild them.

[TexasGrunt]

It could be T.I.N. its a coating used on high wear cutters and industrial parts. I cant remember the entire actual name but its titanium ***** nitride coating and is a gold color on the tooling. It has a very high melt point and is very hard

I'm betting the hammer just found the nail!

Good catch.