Talk:Rosin

message: Why are slash pines not mentioned in the list of trees rosin is made out of. I used to work for a company called Diamond G forestry products in Patterson GA, and they only got sap out of Slash pine, to make Rosin. They tried Loblollies, but they run little to no sap for making Rosin. I don't know who is making Rosin with loblollies or why, but if someone is actually doing that... I am amazed.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by DraygenKai (talk • contribs) 14:14, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slash Pines? 

message: Rosin is an ingredient in printing inks, varnishes, glues, medicines, chewing gum, soap, paper sizing, and, in past times, sealing wax.
Why "in past times"?  Sealing wax still exists, and Wikipedia says shellac and resin have replaced wax and turpentine.  Flapdragon 17:03, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  sealing wax 

message: Dear editors:
I'm a concert classical violinist (proof available upon request). There are NO rosins that cost $100s. Most expensive rosin for violin is Gold 1 by Liebenzeller Metal-Kolophonium. It costs about $25. 
String Rosins are available in Dark (soft, sticky compound for more friction, used on cellos and string bass) and lighter varieties (dry, less sticky, for violin etc.) However many Rosins are in between, and string players have different preferences as well.
:What the poster above writes is true; I teach viola & violin for a living and I raise my eyes at a cake of rosin costing $20.00.  Usually $10.00 is more than enough to buy new rosin for bowed string instruments. Unless there's a steep spike in US inflation, I can't imagine that any of the other uses listed in the article require rosin costing hundreds of dollars either..... J Lorraine 08:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was being generous in not just removing it; it's unsourced and contentious, so if you feel it's unwarranted then please go ahead and remove it. Chris Cunningham 15:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: price of rosin

message: Great article!  Very informative and gave all the information I wanted.  Well done.  NaySay 18:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excellent article 

message: I have noticed (by examining the strings on my instrument and the case) that resin is slightly corrosive, and a friend of mine (who is a luthier), has confirmed this fact.
I have not found any sources on the internet though, but I haven't been searching for more than a few minutes.
Maybe someone else knows about this? 79.136.94.68 (talk) 23:05, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In my sonar-building days, all solder joints had to be cleaned of flux, which was not necessarily done for commercial electronics back then (surface-mount boards were already on the scene.) The customer, the Navy, considered rosin flux residue to be a contaminant. I believe rosin is hygroscopic, attracts water vapor, that is, which can't be that great for keeping metal free from corrosion. Sorry, no particulars to offer beyond that, although I do use a dry cloth or cork to keep my strings from getting crusted with rosin. Unevenly distributed mass such as rosin buildup can pull the overtones out of tune, giving results similar to a "false" string. Corrosion won't help that situation either. __Just plain Bill (talk) 03:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  corrosive? 

message: Properties of rosin includes slow evaporation of lighter fractions if not airtight, rendering luthiers' products suboptimal.
Pines are tapped for rosin. Pines produce rosin as natural wound defense.
I don't have sources for this now.
Mydogtrouble (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced yet known 

message: How does this distillation product relate to pine tar?71.203.125.108 (talk) 13:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to Pine Tar? 

message: I stumbled across an entry in the Joy of Cooking that calls for melted rosin to bake potatos.  After a little search on the internet, this seems to have a small but devoted following as the method cooks the potato to perfection.  It seems like an unsusal and interesting use for rosin.  Perhaps it should be added to the "uses" section of the article??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nylotic (talk • contribs) 13:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rosin Baked Potatos 

message: The statement regarding the use of Rosin in wire solder is somewhat out of date. Tin/Lead solder is becoming less and less common due to the ever tightening regulations around the world, such as RoHS, giving way to a seemingly endless selection of lead-free solder alloys. In addition, the use of Rosin as a flux for electronic soldering has been declining for years with the introduction of "No-Clean" fluxes, which, unlike Rosin based fluxes, become chemically inert after soldering and do not need to be cleaned off. Rosin is still used in high reliability electronics however, as it is exceptionally good at producing nice shiny high quality joints and has excellent wetting capabilities. 
The section about rosin being frequently seen around new soldering as a burnt or clear residue is also incorrect, I'll hazard a guess that this confusion stems from people referring to the flux core inside solder wire as "Rosin" regardless of what the core is actually made of (like how people refer to modern, digital storage oscilloscopes as "CROs"). Actual Rosin leaves a reddish brown residue that you should not be seeing on any products from a reputable manufacturer, for the reasons stated above.
I'm not going to make the edits myself because it's an obvious violation of WP:OR (everything I have stated is from my own knowledge gained inside the electronics manufacturing industry) and I'm pretty lazy when it comes to finding sources. But I felt the need to point the error out so that someone less lazy than me can fix it properly. 112.141.194.183 (talk) 12:47, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In the time it took you to write this talk page, you could have made at least a majority of the corrwctions you mentioned. Which contributes more than a talk page that has gone ignored for the last 5 years. 2607:FEA8:99E0:61D0:40C3:A3C4:A009:1D3A (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of Rosin in solder for electronics. 

message: Surely only when the operator is hopelessly drunk?  (The bow hair is the more usual choice of target, right?)  I’ve amended to what I think was the intended meaning.  Somebody MIGHT LIKE TO CHECK?
- SquisherDa (talk) 15:30, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:   Rosin is often applied to the bow before playing the instrument??