Pewter maybe? Bored , yes.

[mac1911]

[WRideout]

It's the real stuff. Good score for a half a buck.

Wayne

[mac1911]

It's the real stuff. Good score for a half a buck.

Wayne

the roll stamp "REAL PEWTER" had me wondering. I think its the only reason it was marked 50 cents. This seller usually has it marked pretty darn close to street scrap value. Normally dhe would have something like this marked at 4-6$

[mac1911]

ok so snagged this pitcher a while back. It seems to be pewter melted with in a few minutes on small side burner of the grill to produce 10oz of ignots.





Now was not sure about this thing. It was a bit heavy for its size and bent pretty easy but it appears at best it was tin plated.



It does not show up well in the video as I heated it a small amount of metal beaded off the base metal ?


the end result

this will be going in the **** bucket

[William Yanda]

Etain Pur translates Pure Tin. Nice find.

[Retumbo]

Your frogs...I have seen similar stuff melting picture frames. Some have really thick clear coats over the metal so it does not tarnish. **** usually has a foul oder when melted.

[Tripplebeards]

Your frogs...I have seen similar stuff melting picture frames. Some have really thick clear coats over the metal so it does not tarnish. **** usually has a foul oder when melted.

I've noticed if its pewter frame the back is normally solid and not skelitonized like the frogs are. I made the mistake of melting one in with my pewter and when i remelted it last week I found a hard ignot with dimples in it sitting on the bottom of my pot. I fished it out and it went in the trash.

[RogerDat]

With things such as picture frames or the frogs where hitting it with a torch it seems to melt like pewter/tin. Fast melt, smooth flow etc. but lacks the pewter stamp I treat it as solder instead of pewter. Goes in to the box with scrap solder of unknown quality picked up at garage sales or from scrap bins. When I have enough built up I do a melt, get a sample tested and then know what the batch is.

I don't want to treat "maybe" "sort of" pewter as pewter but can generally tell if I'm dealing with some sort of tin alloy. Mixed solder where if it is some sort of lower quality pewter I don't worry about it since some of that solder is probably only 10% solder and most won't be over 30%, whatever increase or decrease I get from the unknown fits right in with the rest of the unknown stuff. Have hit batches as low as 23% and as high as 60% from assorted unknown solders and picture frames.

[K7sparky]

I test pewter that is not marked as such shown in this threads pictures:
First with a knife then with a toss on the cement at the scrap yard. Probably should skip these 2 checks at yard sales
Is it soft with a knife? good start.
Does it dent and go clunk not ding?
Pass on these two and it goes home.

If it melts easily with a soldering iron / gun I knight thou Sir Pewter.

The rare "else" back to the scrap yard at a loss.