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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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 Posted - 05/24/2008 : 13:13:36
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Anyone have a store of tin? I was poking around online the other day, looking for deals on copper and brass, when I ran across a place selling Tin ingots. The price was very close to the last spot price I saw on Tin. Of course, I have to wonder about the liquidity of Tin. Anyone know where one would be able to sell it? What do ya'll think about hoarding Tin as another investment?
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tmaring
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 05/24/2008 : 18:29:01
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I've got a few kilos of tin, but nowhere near what I'd like to have. Tin is seldome used pure, but primarily as a major alloying constituent in solders, in pewters, and in bronzes.
New safety rules requiring that lead be taken out of all solders used in electronics, means tin will increase in importance (as will indium). Lead has been out of all pewters for a long time. Tin bearing bronzes are scarce nowadays mostly replaced by brasses (zinc bearing) except in certain applications, such as high quality cymbals and bells. (If you're a drummer you know how much those things cost!)
Tin is also used in the production of float-glass! The tin is not consumed, but it takes a lot of tin to set up the works. Tin has a low melting point, but a high vaporization point... therefore a wide temperature range of liquidity. It's also fairly dense. So what they do is to pour molten glass out onto a pool of hot molten tin, let the glass spread out and form an even layer, then allow the tin to cool til the glass solidifies while tin is still molten! Then you just pick up glass sheet and let the tin run off, and do it again.
If you had a couple hundred pounds of tin around, you'd have the basics for a small glass-making shop... among other things.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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USA
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Posted - 05/24/2008 : 23:04:17
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We sell it all the time. We make these 1500 pound ingots (well I guess they are not truly ingots) with our baler and ship them out by the truckload.  |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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tmaring
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 05/25/2008 : 09:11:13
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
We sell it all the time. We make these 1500 pound ingots (well I guess they are not truly ingots) with our baler and ship them out by the truckload.
That's bizarre! Where does all this tin come from and in what form that a baler works to make pallet loads? What's a bale going for? |
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jadedragon
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Canada
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Posted - 05/25/2008 : 14:23:58
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| I'm thinking he is talking about Tin Cans... just a guess. |
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/25/2008 : 17:16:32
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| Yep, tin cans. What a bale goes for depends on weight of the bale and whatever the negotiated price with the broker is. We don't ship as much tin as we do aluminum and fibers. We ship out over 200 tons of newpaper and cardboard every day.. much of it bound for China. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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tmaring
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 05/25/2008 : 18:11:56
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Ah... tin cans... actually those are not made of tin. They are steel. In the early days they would plate steel cans with tin to keep them from rusting and making the food taste bad. Now they use a lacquer for the purpose.
The metallic element "tin" (stannum in latin) is a soft heavy grey metal, low melting point, primary element in pewter. It is often found together with silver in ores. |
Tom Maringer
Shire Post Mint
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
851 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2008 : 20:34:47
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| Interesting info on Tin. I'm gonna have to pick some up. |
Are you throwing that out? |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/25/2008 : 22:13:47
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True.. technically they are steel, but we call them tin anyway.. LOL.
It's amazing how much money can be gleaned from what most folks would just throw away. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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Know Common Cents
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 05/26/2008 : 19:39:25
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IMO, tin is only practical for the character in the Wizard of Oz who needed a heart.
Just don't have the storage space for everything and have to prioritize what I'm going to keep. |
Here in Wisconsin, we have some of the highest property and gasoline taxes in the US. We're squeezed so much, I have to make my daughter wear penny boxes for shoes. At least she has an endless supply. |
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fiatboy
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Posted - 05/27/2008 : 20:06:41
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Just think of his scrap value! |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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