Converted a Tesla with tin and lead on (9)
I believe the answer is:
tantalise
'lead on' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'converted a tesla with tin' is the wordplay.
'converted' indicates anagramming the letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a'+'tesla'='atesla'
'atesla' after 'tin' is 'tinatesla'.
'tinatesla' is an anagram of 'TANTALISE'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tantalise that I've seen before include "Tease and entice" , "Tease cruelly" , "Tease, torment" .)