Talk:Tinning

"It is most often used to prevent rust."... Wouldn't 'corrosion' be a more appropriate term to use? 46.115.21.119 (talk) 19:42, 19 October 2011 (UTC)


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 * zation 105.160.29.112 (talk) 10:15, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

tinning - the application of a thin layer of soft solder to the ends of wires before soldering them; "careful tinning of the ends of wires results in a better joint when you solder them" --Free Online Dictionary

Please broaden the definition and discussion to include the usage in soldering and welding. (I don't have the expertise to do so.)

Question about disambiguation
How do you create a disambiguation connection? I was looking for tinplate, I typed in tin plate and I ended up on a page about tinning.

It would be better if typing in 'tin plate' took you to the page on 'tinplate' instead of the page on tinning, or at least asked which one you meant. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.35.97.195 (talk) 08:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
 * I have altered the disambiguation page for 'tin plate' to redirect to 'tinplate'. However I am not sure of the merit of this page, certainly as it stands.  It seems to cover much the same ground as tinplate, but less well.  However, it may be that it has a proper use as covering a wider subject - the use of tin coatings for materials other than sheet iron (or steel) - comments please.  Peterkingiron 14:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I continue to have grave doubts as to the quality of this article, which concentrates on tinplate to the exclusion of other applications of tin to metal, for example its use by whitesmiths to coat other objects than sheet metal. Peterkingiron 16:51, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Sherardizing
I thought sherardizing was zinc - zinc has an appreciable vapour pressure (low boiling) don't know about tin- is there a shrardizing process for tin- can anyone confirm?--Axiosaurus (talk) 20:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Merge proposal

 * Support - It seems to me that this and tinplate cover much the same ground. The only ground on which they might be kept separate is so that this article could deal with the process, as a "main article" to a more general one in tinplate that would focus more on its uses.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

History section
I don't know what to do with the history sections because they have some overlap and some discrepancies. The top history section is from the 1911 Encyclopedia of Brittanica (to see the source go to page 1041 here). The lower history section also has refs, but ones that I can't look up myself. Any help is appreciated. Wizard191 (talk) 20:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I have merged the two history sections to provide a continuous account. However work is required to harmonise units - lb/boxes/tons (=imperial tons).  It would be useful if the sections derived from 1911 could be cited as such.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:22, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. One question, should the plate production be seperated from the plating section? I'm no expert but from what I read in the source for the "pack mill" section it seemed to me that the plate processing section was integral to the hot-dipping process. i.e. the tin-plate producers were the only ones who processed the plates in a pack mill fashion. If this is the case I think that the hot dip section and plate processing section should be recombined, but if the pack mill process is not unique to tinners then it ought to be split out to its own article. Let me know if that makes sense. Wizard191 (talk) 16:36, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * In the 18th century (untinned) blackplate was a saleable product, though I am not wholly clear how it was used. I suspect that japanning arose as a means of protecting blackplate from rust, but that is probably WP:OR.  In the 19th, small galvanised sheet iron goods may have been produced by this means - I am not sure.  Inevitably the books on tinplate describe the whole process - generally all undertaken in a dedicated works maing only tinplate, but I would not rule out the doubling method being used for other purposes.  Some of this is more modern than what I mainly research.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Seeing how neither of us are too sure on the pack mill question, I'll just leave it the way it is. Wizard191 (talk) 20:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)