I have settled on Norelco rotary as the best compromise for me between closeness, irritation, and stray hair catchability. So that's a given.
But what get my goat is Norelco's seemingly *deliberate* poor design choices. They have been designing these things for generations now, and yet they cannot get basic features right. So I'm beginning to think it must be deliberate, some sort of marketing thing.
The on/off button is exactly where your thumb goes when you actually use the thing, so it constantly turns off. Ah -- but there's a lock feature. But it only locks it off, not on.
There are a million variants of stands and cleaning stations, to match the heads and blades. It's a lottery whether any two items are compatible, as they all have nonsensical names/numbers and the European/Canadian variants are sometimes the same, sometimes partly the same, sometimes look the same but entirely different.
For example, I wash my shaver and I need to put it down and charge it. Out of luck if you don't have the cleaning station (a joke), unless you have a compatible charge stand. A charge stand is a great idea; holds the shaver while it dries, and you can plug you chare cable into it if you want. A tedious search of the websites and forums reveals no clue as to whether any of the charge stands are compatible with my model; a chat with a Norelco expert has him redirect me to those same sites and forums.
Honestly, I'm daring this shaver to upset me every morning, on pain of being thrown out the window, but until now it's always actually shaved well so I can't justify the defenestration.
If anyone knows of a compatible charge stand for a 5000 series Norelco, please let me know and help save a shaver from ending up in the back yard.
-- Richard.
But what get my goat is Norelco's seemingly *deliberate* poor design choices. They have been designing these things for generations now, and yet they cannot get basic features right. So I'm beginning to think it must be deliberate, some sort of marketing thing.
The on/off button is exactly where your thumb goes when you actually use the thing, so it constantly turns off. Ah -- but there's a lock feature. But it only locks it off, not on.
There are a million variants of stands and cleaning stations, to match the heads and blades. It's a lottery whether any two items are compatible, as they all have nonsensical names/numbers and the European/Canadian variants are sometimes the same, sometimes partly the same, sometimes look the same but entirely different.
For example, I wash my shaver and I need to put it down and charge it. Out of luck if you don't have the cleaning station (a joke), unless you have a compatible charge stand. A charge stand is a great idea; holds the shaver while it dries, and you can plug you chare cable into it if you want. A tedious search of the websites and forums reveals no clue as to whether any of the charge stands are compatible with my model; a chat with a Norelco expert has him redirect me to those same sites and forums.
Honestly, I'm daring this shaver to upset me every morning, on pain of being thrown out the window, but until now it's always actually shaved well so I can't justify the defenestration.
If anyone knows of a compatible charge stand for a 5000 series Norelco, please let me know and help save a shaver from ending up in the back yard.
-- Richard.
