Tin what is a good price to pay, anybody have?

[Changeling]

I am interested in getting some tin, either pure or known cut. What is a good price to pay for it in usable ingots are some form?

[lwknight]

I would suggest first of all. Do not trust evilbay.
best supply I know of if rotometals.com. If you just want a small amount you can get lead free tin solder at any hardware store but, its probably $20.00 per pound. Or 50/50 tin/lead solder a little cheaper. Its $10.95 at rotometals but shipping is a killer unless you get 5 pounds or so. 5 pounds will sweeten about 250 pounds of lead or wheel weights.

[Hickory]

Changeling;
Look up, at the top of this page where it says
ROTOMETALS they have what you want.
I've bought 11 lbs from them @ $9.99 per pound
and you get free shipping.

[Changeling]

Changeling;
Look up, at the top of this page where it says
ROTOMETALS they have what you want.
I've bought 11 lbs from them @ $9.99 per pound
and you get free shipping.

That is a rather high price.

[Silicon Wolverine]

nathan trotter foundries has good prices if you order 35 lbs or so. i ordered 250 lbs and split it up amongst the guys at teh gun club.

SW

[deltaenterprizes]

That is a rather high price.

That is the going price, pure tin is expensive it was $16/lb. That is why people buy solder, type metal and babbit, you are going to add lead or do you plan to cast pure tin bullets?

[cbrick]

Changeling; Look up, at the top of this page where it says
ROTOMETALS they have what you want. I've bought 11 lbs from them @ $9.99 per pound and you get free shipping.


That is a rather high price.

If you can find a better price on 99.99% tin and/or better people to deal with than at Rotometals I'm all ears. You could try Midway, use this handy link. Midway alloy and tin (http://www.midwayusa.com/browse/BrowseProducts.aspx?tabId=1&categoryId=8662&categoryString=9315***685***)

Rick

[trk]

If you can get lead-free solder scrap, the prices are quite reasonable. I pay my employer 1.5x what the scrap folks would give him and still pay less than a buck a pound. Rendering gets me 80% or so yield. 96.5%tin 3%silver 0.5% copper.

Look for companies that solder wires together - manufacturing. (The company I work for makes motors.)

Now, if I could only find a source for pure-ish lead....

[fredj338]

That is a rather high price.
Really? It's cheaper than buying solder & it's all tin. So where can YOU get it cheaper, please share?

[fredj338]

If you can get lead-free solder scrap, the prices are quite reasonable. I pay my employer 1.5x what the scrap folks would give him and still pay less than a buck a pound. Rendering gets me 80% or so yield. 96.5%tin 3%silver 0.5% copper.

Look for companies that solder wires together - manufacturing. (The company I work for makes motors.)

Now, if I could only find a source for pure-ish lead....
Try stained glass manuf or classes. The wife took a class & I had her ask. Got almost 100# of scrap pieces, nearly pure. I paid the instructor $20.

[Echo]

Really? It's cheaper than buying solder & it's all tin. So where can YOU get it cheaper, please share?

Well, I bought some lead-free from Grainger for about $8/lb, 10 lbs delivered - I believe that is significantly cheaper, and 95% is close enough...

[358wcf]

I'm off this AM with the lovely lady to visit garage sales- she's looking for God knows what, and I'm looking for reloading equipment, molds, and PEWTER- if it's marked as pewter, if you can bend it with your hands, cut it up and melt it down- lots and lots of tin in pewter- watch how much you pay, and it can do the job for you.

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[kawalekm]

Buy the lead-free plumbing solder from Home Depot or Lowes. They usually have prices a few dollars less than other stores. Their solder is 95% tin, 5% antimony, absolutely the perfect source of wheelweight enriching alloy.

I've bought a lot of scrap pewter at the flea market. To be labeled pewter it MUST be 82% minimum tin. Contemporary pewter being manufactured today is 97% tin, and 3% antimony (personal communication with a representative of the Selangor Pewter Works). My best pewter score so far are four 20 oz glass-bottom (with cracked glass) beer mugs for 1$, costing 20 cents per pound.

I melted all my solder/pewter/scraps together and made 1lb muffins to drop into 19lbs of melted wheelweights. I estimate the muffins are ~90% tin, which will bring the wheelweight lead up to about 4.5-5.0% tin, duplicating Lyman #2 alloy. I routinely shoot bullets of this alloy at about 1800fps in my rlfle without leading.

[fredj338]

Well, I bought some lead-free from Grainger for about $8/lb, 10 lbs delivered - I believe that is significantly cheaper, and 95% is close enough...

Once upon a time I bought primers for $12/K too. Let's talk about today, right now, best prices on tin? Right now, it's not Granger.

[Changeling]

Thanks to all for there replies, I'll check out your suggestions and make it so said a wise Captain.

[joel0407]

$30.00 per Kg here in Australia. I'm going to pick up 5 Kg next week. I dont need that much but I'm sure others in the club will want some.

[Changeling]

This was an extremely interesting post. Brought up ideas that I had never thought of.