I've got two questions:
I bought a Gillette Executive on the 'bay recently, but the depth adjustment knob was/is frozen in place. It's been used very little, but still came very stuck.
I've ran this thing through three days of hot water soaks in an ultrasonic cleaner before starting to tear it down as per one of the Gillette Fatboy tear down pictorials.
Obviously, I couldn't rotate the knob to loosen it, so I skipped that step to remove the TTO knob. I planned to try to un-seize the adjustment knob after getting into the bottom of the razor.
As I tapped the file with the head supported in a vise with the towel ready to catch the TTO knob, it moved down. What fell off was not, however the TTO knob, but the head and barrel separated, so the whole barrel complete with TTO knob fell off. Best yet? The spring vanished. It was not in the towel, it was not on the floor.
Now I'm stuck here wondering if someone thought it would be an excellent idea to pour CA glue inside this razor. What has come off is a very thin film of white stuff. It does not act like old shaving cream, but stays in hard flakes even when brushed with other soap. Wherever it was, the parts were extremely tight and in most cases immovable. When I carefully scrape it off, the parts put back together feel factory fresh; they move but are nice and firm.
1st question:
What is this stuff and what could I put this razor in to soak that would take care of it, but leave the nearly perfect Gold finish intact?
2nd question:
Does anyone know if the spring from the Executive is identical to the standard 195's? I don't have a spare Fatboy to tear down to check for fitment and use for parts.
I bought a Gillette Executive on the 'bay recently, but the depth adjustment knob was/is frozen in place. It's been used very little, but still came very stuck.
I've ran this thing through three days of hot water soaks in an ultrasonic cleaner before starting to tear it down as per one of the Gillette Fatboy tear down pictorials.
Obviously, I couldn't rotate the knob to loosen it, so I skipped that step to remove the TTO knob. I planned to try to un-seize the adjustment knob after getting into the bottom of the razor.
As I tapped the file with the head supported in a vise with the towel ready to catch the TTO knob, it moved down. What fell off was not, however the TTO knob, but the head and barrel separated, so the whole barrel complete with TTO knob fell off. Best yet? The spring vanished. It was not in the towel, it was not on the floor.
Now I'm stuck here wondering if someone thought it would be an excellent idea to pour CA glue inside this razor. What has come off is a very thin film of white stuff. It does not act like old shaving cream, but stays in hard flakes even when brushed with other soap. Wherever it was, the parts were extremely tight and in most cases immovable. When I carefully scrape it off, the parts put back together feel factory fresh; they move but are nice and firm.
1st question:
What is this stuff and what could I put this razor in to soak that would take care of it, but leave the nearly perfect Gold finish intact?
2nd question:
Does anyone know if the spring from the Executive is identical to the standard 195's? I don't have a spare Fatboy to tear down to check for fitment and use for parts.
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