I wonder if anyone might have experience of using the metal tubes within which tomato paste is supplied as a source of castable metal? That it is quite soft suggests a low-melting point to me.
Any idea of its constituent metal?
Easy casting metal?
Mar 05, 2010
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Way back, toothpaste tubes (like oil paint tubes) were made from a tin/lead alloy, though I don't know the composition. I wonder though if modern tomato paste tubes might be aluminium.
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Way back, toothpaste tubes (like oil paint tubes) were made from a tin/lead alloy, though I don't know the composition. I wonder though if modern tomato paste tubes might be aluminium.
Unlikely to contain lead these days!
Nobby
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