How old?

[captain beefheart]

Hello, Could someone tell me when this gillette razor was made. The only markings are gillette made in england.The handle appears to be aluminium.Many thanks.[attachment=1][attachment=0]

 

[Audiolab]

English Gillettes have no date code so there is no accurate way of dating them. The Tech was produced between 1939-1973 and the English techs of that kind were in the prevalent sold as a product from mid fifties to mid sixties...roughly.

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[Attero]

English Ball end Tech, pretty sure its the standard handle. The Aluminum handles had a much different profile, and im pretty sure they never made an aluminum ball end.
Age wise I Concur with audio. Most likely a 50's model, but without a date code its very hard to tell so your talking +-10 .

 

[hunnymonster]

They did make an aluminium ball end - at least someone made one with a Gillette Tech head.

The aluminium handled version doesn't have a hole in the bottom, the plated brass one does. Also the aluminium one that I had (or maybe still have) has clear casting snots (what's the technical term?) which aren't present on the brass/nickel version.

 

[henkverhaar]

Also the aluminium one that I had (or maybe still have) has clear casting snots (what's the technical term?)

Lugs?

 

[Arrowhead]

Snots??

 

[hunnymonster]

If they were meant to be there yeah, but these are more like where the metal has seeped slightly out of the joint between the mould faces...

 

[hunnymonster]

Snots??

Technical bricklaying term... the mortar that you remove during pointing is called "snots".

 

[Arrowhead]

Defects, then. How about "sprue"?

 

[hunnymonster]

Yes moulding defects, but I'm sure there's a name for them... a sprue is usually either intended to be there for purposes of getting your whole model aeroplane in the box (or unavoidable due to having runners between mould cavities).

 

[Arrowhead]

Here's a list: take your pick. (I can't believe I chased this up).


1 Broken or Cracked Castings
2 Crushes, Pushups & Clamp-Offs
3 Cuts or Washes
4 Dirt, Slag & Other Inclusions
5 Drops
6 Erosion Scabs
7 Expansion Defects
8 Gas Defects
9 Gross Segregation, Carbon Flotation, Kish Graphite & Dross
10 Non-Uniform Hardness, Hard Spots, Hard Areas & Chilled Spots
11 Hot Tears
12 Inverse Chills
13 Mass Hardness
14 Metal Penetration & Fusion
15 Misruns & Cold Shuts
16 Off Dimension Related to Cores
17 Open Grain Structure
18 Poured Short
19 Ramoffs or Ramaways
20 Rough Surface
21 Runouts & Bleeders
22 Scars, Seams & Plates
23 Shifts
24 Shot Metal or Cold Shots
25 Shrinkage Cavities & Depressions
26 Stickers
27 Swells, Strains & Sags
28 Veins & Fins
29 Warped Castings
30 Widmanstattën Graphite

 

[Audiolab]

Whats sadder is I read it...guess we are just daft as each other here

 

[hunnymonster]

Hmmmm none of those ring a bell - maybe it's something that the casting operatives refer to them as... I may be forced to call my old man up at this rate :lol:

 

[Attero]

Excess metal from join lines / mold lines was always called 'Flash' when i was working with castings.

 

[hunnymonster]

That's the fella...

 

[Arrowhead]

Ah, yes indeed. What a relief that got cleared up. :roll: