Tin

[brad925]

Please humor me but ...............what is a tin can made out of these days? An old fella i met told me that years ago he used pieces of these to add to his mix. Is there enough tin in them to to be used for this.

[wiljen]

Today's cans are plated mild steel. They have little or no tin in them and are completely worthless for adding to your mix. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your old fella must have been remembering the 1950s as since then most cans have switched to steel.

[brad925]

I figured that ...he is in his eighties...LOL. Thanks for the reply though.

[deltaenterprizes]

Some are aluminum with a steel top.

[Echo]

Most 'tin' cans were actually tin-plated steel - the plating reduced rusting and other corrosion. They never were pure tin...

[lwknight]

I wonder how many tons of tin got tossed into landfills in the early days. What a shame.

[rob45]

I wonder how many tons of tin got tossed into landfills in the early days. What a shame.

A bunch.

[CB Hunter]

Brad,

"Tin" cans always were Tin plated steel. He is probably hinking of toothpaste and other products that are packed in squeeze tubes, before plastic they were made from virtually pure Tin and couldbe, and were, used to alloy with Lead.

FWIW, many pharmaceutical product squeeze tubes still are Tin.

[mold maker]

Along with a lot of other reuseable metals.

[Spudgunr]

Wanna know how much tin there is? I happen to be in the business.

The normal tin coating is .2 pounds of tin for BOTH sides of the steel for every 217 square feet.

Back in the day it was hotdipped and had as much as 2 pounds for every 217 square feet. As far as I know it was never pure tin. Even in the early 1800's it was tin coated iron.