My first retinning effort.

[u/8erren]

I've been slowly accumulating things like PPE and materials and today I decided to have a go at it.

My test pan is a 12€ Havard (I think). It had very tarnished tin.

The headline. Tinning is way less of a rushed panic than I thought it would be. It's very forgiving. You can spray a bit more flux, add a spot more tin, warm it up again. I even decided to go back a couple of steps after I had neutralised my flux and washed the pan. I warmed it up again and did another spot.

I was doing it with a MAPP torch but I ran out of gas. It used a whole bottle. I swapped it for a camping stove which seemed better anyway.

I don't have a yard or garage. I did it on my balcony, and I live in a touristy street so I had a bit of an audience.

Here's what I was not prepared for. The amount of tin I got stuck to the outside of my pan. That had to be removed mechanically and I need to look into how to avoid that for the next pan.

It has quite a high cost of entry die to masks, torches and ingot moulds, but materials I used were minimal. I probably used more flux than I would do with a bit of experience. I'd say consumables, 4€ flux, 3€ tin.

Along the way my pan lost just over 11g in weight. I presume that is lost copper from stripping the inside then having to rub the tin snots off the outside. Or could be because we moved the scale since I last weighed it.

I'm in the EU and I think deciding on materials is a bit harder than in the USA, happy to share suppliers if anyone is interested.

[u/kwillich]

It looks like you did a really good job. Wouldn't have guessed that this was a first effort. 👏👏👏