well be careful with your fatip heads and different handles.

[mastershake]

my wonderful fatip head i was using with a oss handle today decided it was not going to grab the threads anymore. its was not ever loose at all and tightened up nicely and i never tried to over tighten it. just snugged it gently. today loaded a blade like normal and when i (gently as always) turned the handle it just kept turning. i know its not the handle since the handle still works perfect on everything else i have. i tried 3 different handles including the factory fatip one and no luck. so sadly my top cap thread are shot. funny thing is the threads on the top cap appear to be perfectly fine???

just a warning to those who use different handles. be so careful i was always very careful knowing that the threads were not exactly the same from all the threads here but somehow from use for a little over 3 months the threads are shot.

now to somehow find a new razor i like as much. i dont think i will buy another and have this happen again. i have another new one but will probably sell it off soon since i just dont like the razor with the stock handle.

 

[Copierguy]

Bummer, my condolences.

 

[Pudu]

That is unfortunate. Fatip heads are great.

You could try a UFO handle - they can be ordered with threads specific to Fatip.

 

[Chadao]

Yep. And Alex has an ongoing thread about Fatips and the handles they love and hate. Here...


http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...handle-name-thread-post-all-here!!?highlight=

That is unfortunate. Fatip heads are great.

You could try a UFO handle - they can be ordered with threads specific to Fatip.

 

[Viseguy]

How long did you have your Fatip? I've been using mine for about a year and a half, with Weber and UFO handles. So far, so good. If this happened to me, I'd just buy another Fatip. It's the only razor I care to use, these days.

 

[mastershake]

used it about three months. it was a nickel grande. the oss handle threaded fine it was not loose or anything like that. it must have been just enough to wear the threads a hair each time until it just didnt grab. funny thing is it was perfect yesterday tightened right up.. but not going to buy another every three months...

 

[alex2363]

Yep. And Alex has an ongoing thread about Fatips and the handles they love and hate. Here...


http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...handle-name-thread-post-all-here!!?highlight=

In reality it is an ongoing thread by our great members, just started by me.

 

[alex2363]

my wonderful fatip head i was using with a oss handle today decided it was not going to grab the threads anymore. its was not ever loose at all and tightened up nicely and i never tried to over tighten it. just snugged it gently. today loaded a blade like normal and when i (gently as always) turned the handle it just kept turning. i know its not the handle since the handle still works perfect on everything else i have. i tried 3 different handles including the factory fatip one and no luck. so sadly my top cap thread are shot. funny thing is the threads on the top cap appear to be perfectly fine???

just a warning to those who use different handles. be so careful i was always very careful knowing that the threads were not exactly the same from all the threads here but somehow from use for a little over 3 months the threads are shot.

now to somehow find a new razor i like as much. i dont think i will buy another and have this happen again. i have another new one but will probably sell it off soon since i just dont like the razor with the stock handle.

So far this is the first i hear of this, and the Fatips have been altered with different handles now for more than 1 year. Hopefully it will not be a bad trend.

 

[dcobranchi]

Perhaps you could pick up a die that matches your preferred handles and re-set the threads.

 

[mastershake]

going to try that tomm i have a die set here will let you know.

 

[Sceptic Pencil]

I was always worried about stripping the thread on my FaTip by using other handles, so I bought a UFO Kaiser short with a FaTip thread. Something I have tried, but not got round to shaving with, is using the FaTip comb, with a different end cap & handle. I used a Merkur 41c in my experiment & though there was less blade exposure than with the original head, it looked like it would shave OK.

 

[Dusty1]

my wonderful fatip head i was using with a oss handle today decided it was not going to grab the threads anymore. its was not ever loose at all and tightened up nicely and i never tried to over tighten it. just snugged it gently. today loaded a blade like normal and when i (gently as always) turned the handle it just kept turning. i know its not the handle since the handle still works perfect on everything else i have. i tried 3 different handles including the factory fatip one and no luck. so sadly my top cap thread are shot. funny thing is the threads on the top cap appear to be perfectly fine???

just a warning to those who use different handles. be so careful i was always very careful knowing that the threads were not exactly the same from all the threads here but somehow from use for a little over 3 months the threads are shot.

now to somehow find a new razor i like as much. i dont think i will buy another and have this happen again. i have another new one but will probably sell it off soon since i just dont like the razor with the stock handle.

Sorry to hear it, sounds frustrating for sure. I will be shocked if taking a die to it will work at all, they dont add threads, but good luck anyways.

 

[Bearded Buckeye]

Could you just skip the 'tool and die' dance and stick a small, thin piece of plastic vertically inside of the female threads to serve as a shim to get the head threads to bite? The thread pitch is most likely still there, it is just a matter of inducing friction and tension.

I know that this doesn't solve the problem...but, it may help you keep that nice head in rotation on the cheap.

 

[mastershake]

yeah chasing the threads did nothing. if anything it made it worse because it sharpened them up and made them less wide at the same time. my freind is going to try to put a new post on it for me. he has the proper stuff to work with brass. i dropped it off today to him we will see what happens.