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The heating, cooling, quenching, re-heating processes are all necessary, as I understand it, to produce a suitable "blank" band that can then be edge-ground, coated and cut into a D.E. blade, Techmatic-type band, or cartridge blade insert....So these Techmatics are basically like typewriter ink ribbons. The steel strip is same as the blades going in carts but it's not quenched to make it hard and stiff.
I owned--and used--a TM when they first came out. I've never had a good shave with one.I've never had a bad shave with the Techmatic.
Maybe back then Schick enough volume to have had different plants? Like the 351 Ford V-8, we made the C version in Cleveland, the 351 W came from Windsor Engine Plant No.2 ..
My father was very particular about things and devoted to a Schick Krona around 1969/70. On the recommendation of his nephew-in-law, he tried a Techmantic, which was quickly abandoned without much comment. But, forever thereafter he referred to the relative as "Stupid Nephew Will."
I owned--and used--a TM when they first came out. I've never had a good shave with one.
LOL! I'm afraid mine has been rotting away in a landfill somewhere in Arizona for the past fifty years. Nonetheless, to get into the spirit of the event, I promise to squeeze in a shave or two with a Good News disposable and a face full of brushless.C'mon, July 16-20! Only two weeks to blastoff!
The Techmatic has been the favourite whipping-boy of online shaving forums for well over a decade.I owned--and used--a TM when they first came out. I've never had a good shave with one.
Well man, this is your opportunity to redeem "Nephew Will's" reputation once and for all! He wasn't wrong, he was just ahead of his time.My father was very particular about things and devoted to a Schick Krona around 1969/70. On the recommendation of his nephew-in-law, he tried a Techmantic, which was quickly abandoned without much comment. But, forever thereafter he referred to the relative as "Stupid Nephew Will."
The Techmatic has been the favourite whipping-boy of online shaving forums for well over a decade.
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To anyone that remembers getting poor shaves from the Techmatic back in the 60's and 70's, I would challenge them to get one to-day, use it and report honestly on their experience. You can pick one up on ebay for a song, with a cartridge already in it!
If you're using a N.O.S. cartridge sealed in a blister pack, it should perform as intended. I just recently used an original N.O.S. "introductory" cartridge from 1965! and it performed "as new," i.e sharp as new.Challenge accepted, I did use the Techmatic back in the day, and don't recall it fondly. But I'm in on this adventure to see if my memory from the Age of Aquarius is flawed. Might be, we shall see in a couple weeks .. the gear is ready, save for the brushless cream
So mean! It's just a $1.98 razor (back then).
They really aren't that bad! Try one and see! I'm attempting to Techmatic-shave the whole month.
AA
Using a Techmatic wasn't the only way in which my cousin was stupid, in the eyes of my father.
This is an interesting article about shaving in space: The First Time Anyone Shaved in Space
Sounds like a Techmatic was better than the wind-up rotary shavers.
While I do not have a Techmatic, I do have a '64 Slim, which I would bet many men at NASA had. For that matter, any 60's razor! So I will join in Spirit, put aside my Karve razor, and shave with a razor that may have been common to the men involved.
Eric; M, Karve Diem, BOSC