Anyone ever have this happen to their razor?
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Yikes!
Just another reason to dislike the glue spots.
In the blade forum people are mocking my thread asking about blades without glue spots because they think glue spots are harmless. Your post proves that this is not always the case.
One step closer to making Kai my one and only blade.
Just another reason to dislike the glue spots.
In the blade forum people are mocking my thread asking about blades without glue spots because they think glue spots are harmless. Your post proves that this is not always the case.
One step closer to making Kai my one and only blade.
Interesting, but if I may ask, what are the true ramifications of brassing, there or elswhere? Please don't take this to be argumentative. I have razors with minor brassing and I just curious as to the long term effects of brassing. Plating loss is understandably taken to be unwanted if not detrimental, certainly so from an aesthetic standpoint. And there's nothing wrong with that. But does it or will it go beyond looks and actually impare the function of the razor when it occurs on a working part of the razor? Or does it merely mean that that specific spot will develope a patina? (I should think it would take a whole lot more exposure to water and other elements, than normal use, to actually corrode the metal. I could be wrong though.
That hasn't happened to me yet, but I'm not surprised. Once I was opening up an aristocrat when the doors got stuck, I kept turning and they exploded open, it turns out the blade was stuck to the doors or the base plate because of the glue.
I use vintage 3 piece razors and never had a problem with the WAX spots. They really dissolve in water.
I always make sure to clean off any residue that remains on my razor when I replace the blade. How much damage can a little dab of wax do it left on my razor for up to 3 days?
Match up the blade wax spot to the brassing spot,from the spots I have observed on blades,is not even close.
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My uneducated guess is that the glue just slightly accelrated the inevitable. That bonding of that spot of plate to the undelying brass was physically compromised if all it took was the adhesive property of the wax to pull it off. Look at it another way: the wax didn't cause the paper wrapping to tear off when you removed it from the razor, so how much adhesion was it exerting?
+1. Unless your razor was truly mint, a little bit of plating loss won't make the slightest difference to it's performance or value.
Look at the other side of the head there. You can clearly see a smearing of glue that matches the spot where the plating loss is seen. The glue is probably getting squished around.
+1!! Yeah, the glue/wax shouldn't remove the plating like that unless it was compromised to begin with.
Still, I hate the glue gobs.
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Not that it is probably worth arguing but I would call whomever did the plating. If chrome peeled off a bumper 4 mothes after being replated I would be going back. Not the same dollars but if it was recently replated it may not have been prepped right. Just a thought.
Jay
Jay
Well if that happened to me I would be pretty bummed, as I like to look at the razors as much as use them...I even clean my tto's after each use so I guess I'm at the far end of the spectrum, opposite of normal.
<---- this is me cracking at up at you casually dropping that comment in well after the fact.
I saw this post and was going to chime in and ask how the razor was being cleaned thinking a cleaner had compromised the plating or something along those lines. Fortunately I kept reading!
I used the same black handled super speed razor to shave with everyday with the same brand of blades for decades until reciently. The blades have those same spots and I've left them in the razor after I shaved until they needed to be changed and the razor is the same as when I got it.
I usually pull the blade out, after ever shave, rinse and let air dry before putting it back into the razor... So far I haven't had any problems...
I really hate those glue spots also. 
Single edge and injector blades don't have glue or wax spots to mess with. Just sayin...
