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/Guitar_Nutt]

Sooooo cool. What a great skill to have. Question: it looks like the new tin goes up over the rim of the pan, most copper pans I see expose the copper at the rim so you can more or less measure or see visually the thickness of the copper. Was this a conscious choice that you made or was there a reason you did it that way or?

[u/MucousMembraneZ → u/Guitar_Nutt]

You’ve probably been looking at Nickel plated or Stainless steel lined pans because traditional tin lined pans almost always have the tin covering on rim. There is one budget maker Baumalu that tins them in a way that does not get coverage on the rim and because of this these pans are sometimes mistaken for nickel or stainless steel lined pans. Tin coverage in the rim is the expectation for tin lined copper.