Canned Milk Tool

[oldtools]

I think Old Wives Tales are based on facts!  when you open a can that breaches the protective coating inside the can & don't refrigerate.
just like damaged cans should be checked for bloating & thrown away, could have started botulism.
this was proberly more of a problem before refregeration or better can coatings.

[Mel Larsen]

Like I said before, we used to search the old dumps for old bottles, these dumps were 1890's early 1900 type dumps. One thing I noticed was that most all the tin cans were sealed with some sort of solder or lead.  And I don't think they had any sort of liner in them. 
Mel

[Branson]

Like I said before, we used to search the old dumps for old bottles, these dumps were 1890's early 1900 type dumps. One thing I noticed was that most all the tin cans were sealed with some sort of solder or lead.  And I don't think they had any sort of liner in them. 
Mel

The oldest tin cans *were* soldered.  Lord Franklin's doomed expedition carried extensive canned goods.  Unfortunately, they were soldered with lead, and the entire crew succumbed to lead poisoning.  A couple of decades ago, the graves of some of Franklin's sailors were found in the permafrost.  Autopsies showed that all had lethal amounts of lead.   A dump of cans from the expedition was also discovered, which confirmed the use of lead solder.

Lined?  Nope -- just tin plated iron sheet.  I don't remember any kind of lining in the '50s or '60s.

[1930]

Like I said before, we used to search the old dumps for old bottles, these dumps were 1890's early 1900 type dumps. One thing I noticed was that most all the tin cans were sealed with some sort of solder or lead.  And I don't think they had any sort of liner in them. 
Mel

The oldest tin cans *were* soldered.  Lord Franklin's doomed expedition carried extensive canned goods.  Unfortunately, they were soldered with lead, and the entire crew succumbed to lead poisoning.  A couple of decades ago, the graves of some of Franklin's sailors were found in the permafrost.  Autopsies showed that all had lethal amounts of lead.   A dump of cans from the expedition was also discovered, which confirmed the use of lead solder.

Lined?  Nope -- just tin plated iron sheet.  I don't remember any kind of lining in the '50s or '60s.

This is interesting, is there are article printed somewhere online that I could read telling the whole story?

[Branson]

>This is interesting, is there are article printed somewhere online that I could read telling the whole story?

Absolutely.  Wikipedia has an entry that covers a lot of ground.  I was most familiar with the Beechey Island exhumations,  which were astonishing for their preservation.  The Beechey Island survey was in 1984 -- 1986.  Hundreds of discarded cans showed the lead solder used, but later research implicate the water storage for the high concentration of lead found in the bones and soft tissue.

An article on one of the soup cans, and the lead content of  the soup it still contained can be found at:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Franklin+Expedition+Ship+Found&view=detail&id=843AE2006F718EE374541CFF8016A6F10782FCEE&first=226

A good general article can be found at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14847091

Another at:

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/franklin/franklin.html

[1930]

Very interesting, thanks