Shimmed my Tech, holy moly!

[cpacamper]

I love the weight, balance, and head geometry of my L4 ball end Tech, and the relatively easy, mild shave it provides me is great: a fast DFS in three passes with little effort, perfect technique yields BBS results when I can take the time.

Well, sometimes I don't have as much time as I'd like but I still want my BBS, so this morning I shimmed my Tech and all I can say is WOW! For me, the added blade gap provided just enough flexibility in blade angle that I achieved excellent, irritation free BBS results in relatively little time. The shim made an already excellent little shaver into a champ.

EDIT: To create the shim, I simply snipped the sharp edges off a used Astra SP, maybe 1/16 of an inch on each side. I placed the shim on the base plate and the new blade on top. This increased the blade gap by the width of an Astra SP, which was perfect for me. I only used one shim, I might try two next week.

 

[rxonmymind]

Good to hear. Now with that added blade gap go into shave wiki and find a similar blade gap then you'll know what to hunt down in case you ever get rad. Congrats.

 

[Knobby8]

Interesting, I've been thinking of doing that. What did you use to shim?, I've seen other people sometimes use a cut-down razor blade. How much did you shim?

 

[wazza]

Interesting, I've been thinking of doing that. What did you use to shim?, I've seen other people sometimes use a cut-down razor blade. How much did you shim?

+1

any pics?

 

[cpacamper]

+1

any pics?

No pics, no good camera. See my initial post, edited for more details.

 

[creekwalker]

cpa, your l4 is not a pre-war American Tech is it?

 

[nemo]

It does work! I tried it too, but also went back to the amazing shaves a tech gives without any mods.

cpa, your l4 is not a pre-war American Tech is it?

Pre-war Techs had no date codes.

 

[cpacamper]

creekwalker, it's a 1966 L4 Tech.

 

[sea]

what affect does the shimming have on the aggressiveness (or lack thereof)?

 

[cpacamper]

creekwalker, it's a 1966 L4 Tech.

 

[Copierguy]

what affect does the shimming have on the aggressiveness (or lack thereof)?

cpa did with the shim what a Fat Boy does with the adjusting mechanism, he raised the blade edge away from the safety bar, (in this case the thickness of the blade).

 

[razhound]

I just added a shim to my Rimei razor and I got to say wow too. I thought I was going to get cut up but that didn't happen. I got a nice more efficient shave and very close shave with less work. Cool!

 

[pcravis]

work same on open comb but cut-.down on top--mild shave