Making bronze

me attempting to make bronze by combining copper and tin

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[cowsrcool7658]

it came in a wire coil i think it was solder or sumtin

[cowsrcool7658]

oh chill i made a new alloy of 67% aluminum and 33% tin its useless but cool

[cowsrcool7658]

wow still no comments

[ThePescavore]

There are many different bronze alloys but modern bronze is typically 88% copper and 12% tin. Brass alloys are made with zinc which is why it can never be used in a boat as the zinc will be leached out of the copper by electrolysis.

[KerPlunkItDude]

Impressive! but you are not a Jedi Yet!!!!!

[Grimgorus]

Hmmm. There must be a better way... I'm sure the ancients wouldn't approve.

[jasonthemauler]

@85rocco Sorry, I meant to say that bronze must contain tin, but still, both bronze and brass need zinc; otherwise, it's just a copper-alloy. So you still need zinc!

[85rocco]

@jasonthemauler You've got that backwards, it's brass that must contain zinc, bronze is a more generic term for any copper based alloy. When the word bronze is used on its own, it usually means a copper and tin alloy. When different metals are alloyed with the copper, it'll usually be explicitly stated such as silicon bronze or aluminium bronze.

[jasonthemauler]

Bronze must contain ZINC.  If you combine copper and tin, but there's no zinc, it's just brass; not bronze

[joferg70]

@charlesian2000 oh well, thanks for that help. All the best.

[charlesian2000]

I only know because I've done a fair amount of backyard alloying, and I've done my research.

Copper is copper. Tin in tin cans is rarely tin. It's best if you're alloying to get "real" tin.

Tin is an expensive metal.

When flinging unknown alloys into copper, you will end up with either a bronze or a brass, but you will have zero quality control... it will be hit and miss.

I like to know what alloy I'm going to end up with.

[joferg70]

@charlesian2000 Hi, you seem to know what your talking about. I have been wanting to give bronze casting a go for a while and came across a furnace there. Do you mind me asking, if youmix scrap copper with tin, is tin as in'tin cans' a pure enough tin? I saw a documentary about small founderies in Africa and they were flinging in any old stuff. What do you think?

[wolvenblacktalon1]

that tourch reminded me of a song i made up DONT YA WISH YOUR BLOW TOURCH WAS HOT LIKE ME LOL I KNOW NEEDS WORK