Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Mending Tinware. [ARTICLE]

Mending Tinware.

Haviho read a communication in the Rural upon this subject, and, having had seme experience in the art, I give year readers the benefit thereof. One can very easily learn to mend their earn tin, and a soldering iron is much better than a candle to do it with, as the solder will adhere to the tinned face oftho iron, and may be drawn along a crack or seam, ami spread or rubbed over a hole. If the soloes is not inclined to stick, a little rubbing the place with the hot iron will assist it to di> so. In order to brighten tin or soldering. It should only be scraped very lightly, thaf the iron plate beneath may be exposed as little as possible; for the reason that solder does not readily adhere to an torn or untinned surface, sad if there are any, spots uncovered by the solder, the iron will soon corrodrand make a new bole—and this J* the reaaon why l have RwrnedTbener than to use acids or soldering fluid. They are so powerfully corrosive, as your cor respondent says—that they set up an action on the tin, especially if the iron is exposed, and in a little while the whole spot will be rusted out. Aeide are wholly unnecessary in soldering tinned surface*. Tinners do not use them in ordinary tin work; but they are useful for brass, copper, zinc, etc. A little rosin, put upon the-place with your solder, it all that is necessary, and is not corrosive. If the iron-is heated too hot, so that it is red, the tinning upon it will be destroyed, and at the Saiae time will eat cavities in it, makirga rough face, in which case it may be hammered down some, then filed bright, aad finned again, by heatlhg it so that it will melt solder, and then robbing its bright face in the melted solder, with rosin,on a brick. The brick serves to, keep it bright until the solder adheres.— Reuben Andrew», in Rural Hew Yorker.