Black Beauty has a crooked smile

[fast14riot]

I was given this long handled Z3 for free and it was just banging around in a drawer for who knows how long. It wouldn't even open when I got it. I have gotten it cleaned up and and it opens now, but the blade gap is pretty crooked and the safety bar is a little tweaked on one side. Where do I start on this one? Being a later model it has the plastic adjuster tray and if I use a screw driver to tweak the gap it gouges the plastic. Should I take a pair of jewelers pliers to the safety bar to straighten it out? And I think the whole thing is a little cocked to one side, will the hammer taps on the underside like adjusting a non-adjustable TTO razor help fix this?

In this pic if you look at the safety bar on the right you can see it is warped a bit...

Thanx for any help you can offer for a plan of attack on this razor.

-Xander

 

[fast14riot]

Any help on this??


-Xander

 

[alex2363]

Any help on this??


-Xander

use a screw driver, very carefully twist it until it gets straight.

 

[ERVARGASNY]

Were you able to fix it ?

 

[fast14riot]

The issue with using a screw driver is this razor has a plastic adjuster tray (don't know the actual term, but the four tabs that stick through the bottom plate) and it gets gouged by the tip and I was trying to avoid that.


-Xander

 

[alex2363]

The issue with using a screw driver is this razor has a plastic adjuster tray (don't know the actual term, but the four tabs that stick through the bottom plate) and it gets gouged by the tip and I was trying to avoid that.


-Xander

Just be gentle, or take it apart. If you know how.http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/197072-Slim-Disassembly-Documentary

 

[fast14riot]

Well I managed to not gouge this razor up too badly, but a screwdriver wasn't going to fix this. Both safety bars were bent down, if you look in the last pic in the original post, you notice the saftey bars are actually pointing in towards the handle rather than parallel to it. I used jewelers pliers and a small ball pein hammer to persuade it back into shape.

Here are the after pics...

I have about 2 days growth on my face and I am going to try this thing out tonight for sure! Its not looking too bad for a razor that was given to me!


-Xander