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Norfolkdick said:missingskin said:This probably one for Martin or someone from over the pond. I have just purchased a sealed pack of injector blades distributed by Consumer Value Stores (Div of Melville Corp, Woonsocket). I am guessing they are generic blades but made by who ? And are they any good ?
Greetings
I'm just an old boy from Norfolk (this Norfolk) and what I now state is mainly as a result of what I have read.
With injector blades there are not very many choices of manufacture ie Schick which are now made in China, Personna/GEM which is now all the same company and made in the USA, PAL which I think are also now owned by GEM/Personna and Dorco from South Korea. I believe nobody else are making injector blades.
Pal injector blades are widely used in Lab work for tissue slicing but are not rated highly for shaving, The Personna PTFE coated blade we all know and are the only ones available here in the UK from Paul at Connaught's. That leaves the Dorco's I do know they manufacture Injector blades for USA chains as indeed they do with standard SE blades. I have tried the SE blades and they are crap just like their DE blades but I have never tried any injector blades made by them. The Dorco SE blades say Made in South Korea on the packet.
I strongly suspect they will be Dorco or PAL, perhaps as you say Martin knows.
Regards
Dick.
Norfolkdick said:missingskin said:This probably one for Martin or someone from over the pond. I have just purchased a sealed pack of injector blades distributed by Consumer Value Stores (Div of Melville Corp, Woonsocket). I am guessing they are generic blades but made by who ? And are they any good ?
Greetings
I'm just an old boy from Norfolk (this Norfolk) and what I now state is mainly as a result of what I have read.
With injector blades there are not very many choices of manufacture ie Schick which are now made in China, Personna/GEM which is now all the same company and made in the USA, PAL which I think are also now owned by GEM/Personna and Dorco from South Korea. I believe nobody else are making injector blades.
I strongly suspect they will be Dorco or PAL, perhaps as you say Martin knows.
Regards
Dick.
dodgy said:Norfolkdick said:missingskin said:This probably one for Martin or someone from over the pond. I have just purchased a sealed pack of injector blades distributed by Consumer Value Stores (Div of Melville Corp, Woonsocket). I am guessing they are generic blades but made by who ? And are they any good ?
Greetings
I'm just an old boy from Norfolk (this Norfolk) and what I now state is mainly as a result of what I have read.
With injector blades there are not very many choices of manufacture ie Schick which are now made in China, Personna/GEM which is now all the same company and made in the USA, PAL which I think are also now owned by GEM/Personna and Dorco from South Korea. I believe nobody else are making injector blades.
I strongly suspect they will be Dorco or PAL, perhaps as you say Martin knows.
Regards
Dick.
Guys, Martin don't know nuffin bout injector blades when it comes to who makes what blade for which brand names. Used to have a little info but forgot it years ago. Funny, I don't recall seeing Dorco anywhere in the mix. It was mostly Personna and ASR I think back then.
Sorry I have nothing else right now, but i will be curious to see how the blades drunkenmonk has end up working out.
missingskin said:Sorry I have nothing else right now, but i will be curious to see how the blades drunkenmonk has end up working out.
When Eversharp took over the Schick brand there were slight differences between the markings on razors between production runs.Bluebriz said:I have two Ls (I think) but the embossed logos are slightly different. Also, one sounds like it's loose with no blade in. Would it be ok to put up some pics so someone more knowledgable could help me out?
Norfolkdick said:Greetings
Yesterday lunchtime and after making the above post these blades arrived in the mail from the States together with a Schick injector I purchased.
These is no mention of a Polymer coating but they are Platinum Chrome coated, note the date of 1998 on the back of the packet.
What sort of cartridge are your blades in?
Regards
Dick
missingskin said:Just had a shave with one, not shaved since sunday so had a bit of work to do......:angel:.
Used my Schick M1 set at 5 (forgot what Martin suggested for best setting..:huh
2 passes 1 WTG & 1 ATG with a couple of touch ups, no irritation, no nicks and BBS shave.
Now we will have to see how they last, but at 50p ish per blade ..........
majortom said:When Eversharp took over the Schick brand there were slight differences between the markings on razors between production runs.Bluebriz said:I have two Ls (I think) but the embossed logos are slightly different. Also, one sounds like it's loose with no blade in. Would it be ok to put up some pics so someone more knowledgable could help me out?
Eversharp Co. was the parent company of Schick from 1946-69 (G-type to the middle of the L-years), and they seem to have had a series of identity crises. They played around with their logos & razor names quite a bit. Some injectors in this era were marketed under only the Eversharp name rather than Schick stamp. Others had both names. Alan G. Appleby suggested that this was Eversharp's attempt to distinguish the injectors from their Schick "dry shavers" (electrics). For example, the K-types were marketed as "Lady Eversharp" with no mention of "Schick" on the box. (They have a cursive L on the head instead of the crown or triangle.)
With ref to the loose head, this happens fairly regularly with the injectors and is normally caused when people attempt to remove the old blade without replacing it with a new one, in order to clean the blade holder base, and they wedge open the head with a screwdriver or pencil etc. This tends to weaken the little spring clip that clamps the head tight. It is possible to bend this clip back into shape but it's a fiddly job, and as long as the head is tight when a blade is in, then I'd leave it be. When I get an Injector for the first time which does not have an old blade in, and the razor has been cleaned and polished, I've found that often there is some play in the head, or, more commonly, the blade holder is slightly misaligned, making it difficult or sometimes impossible to load another blade, as the new blade fouls the lower portion of the blade holder.Bluebriz said:majortom said:When Eversharp took over the Schick brand there were slight differences between the markings on razors between production runs.Bluebriz said:I have two Ls (I think) but the embossed logos are slightly different. Also, one sounds like it's loose with no blade in. Would it be ok to put up some pics so someone more knowledgable could help me out?
Eversharp Co. was the parent company of Schick from 1946-69 (G-type to the middle of the L-years), and they seem to have had a series of identity crises. They played around with their logos & razor names quite a bit. Some injectors in this era were marketed under only the Eversharp name rather than Schick stamp. Others had both names. Alan G. Appleby suggested that this was Eversharp's attempt to distinguish the injectors from their Schick "dry shavers" (electrics). For example, the K-types were marketed as "Lady Eversharp" with no mention of "Schick" on the box. (They have a cursive L on the head instead of the crown or triangle.)
Very interesting, thank you very much for the information. [THUMBS UP SIGN]
majortom said:With ref to the loose head, this happens fairly regularly with the injectors holder.
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