anyone ever make their own Tins?

[Diamond Tackle]

Originally Posted by Fishpart

The different metals get alloyed in a foundry where you melt the different metals together usually above the melting point of the metal with the highest melting point. Interestingly enough, once the metals are combined in solution, the melting point of the alloy is something completely different.

To seperate them, they need to be refined so be careful of contamination..

Yes ,when youre speaking about a 60/40 blend for example this maye be True, the exception though would be the small quantities of copper or SILVER for example which have much higher melting points, those are added as a POWDER (I think) , which is how they can be put into solution. I dont think they bring the entire pot to the melt point of silver or copper. I dont know the exact process because the industry is pretty secretive about how they create their alloys. Ive seen pictrures of he labs where they do their testing, but not many people are allowed in.