Talk:Tinplate

The present plating article does not seem to refer to tinplate at all. Peterkingiron 23:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Expansion

This article was formerly merely a Redirect to plating, but that said little about tinplate in particular. I have begun expanding it, and hope to continue in the next few days. Peterkingiron 23:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Wow, what a difference. When I wanted to link to tinplate from a different article a year or more ago, there was almost nothing here at all. Nice work. Telsa (talk) 10:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Cooking in zinc coated containers

"Formerly, tinplate was used for cheap pots, pans and other holloware, but galvanised (zinc-coated) vessels are now used."

This is not only wrong. It's lethal. If you cook in a galvanized vessel you will get zinc in the food and it will literally kill the people eating it. Back in the early 1950's we'd get Mexican families coming up into South Texas from really primitive parts of Mexico and living really rough till they could get enough money to rent a place or cobble a shack together. We'd lose several Mexican families around Corpus Christi every year when they'd decide they could cook beans over an open fire in a new galvanised bucket. It was terrible because education didn't work in that the people who did this were new to the area and hadn't heard about galvanized buckets being lethal.

Similarly we had regular cases where someone who hadn't heard about cadmium plating would decide that that old rack out of his fridge was just what he needed for his new BBQ pit that he'd bricked up in his back yard. That didn't happen as often but it could be just as lethal.

Anyhow, I'm editing that sentence to get rid of the implication that you cook in galvanised containers. Plaasjaapie (talk) 21:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

The statement quoted is basically correct, as long as it is not applied to cooking vessels. However, for many purposes, galvansieed vessels have been replaced with plastic. Peterkingiron (talk) 22:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I was unhappy with your amendment, and hope that my alternative one deals with the probelm you raise. Peterkingiron (talk) 22:10, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

"This is why it is not safe to eat food from a rusty tin can."

While this may be a true statement, there is no reference, and the logical argument of it is not fleshed out appropriately. Is it unsafe because of the tin which the rusting steel sets free, or because of the rusting steel, or because the food may be spoiled? The statement needs more context to justify its placement in this article. - Blueguy 65.0.212.9 (talk) 04:03, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm removing it, since there is no zinc in tin cans, rusty or not. The rust itself is not toxic, and what matter would it make if there was rust on the outside of the cans? --GSchjetne (talk) 20:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I am still not sure that the statemtn is right. I do not think zinc oxidises, but dissolves. However, it is a long time soince I was taught about this at school. Zinc only needs to be referred to for comparison. My understanding is that a rusty tin is liable to have hole in it and thus have failed to keep the food fresh. In the same way, one used occasionally to get a tin that had blown, the food having gone bad and produced gas. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:03, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Electroplating Tinplate Addition

We should add a part about Modern Electroplating to Steel to make Tin Plate. 139.130.248.42 (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)