Dipesh said:
Looking good! From my experience of using other people, it's all in the prep. A stripped down, polished up razor will look better than new.
Look forward to seeing it done!
Nico1970 said:
Cool.
Looking forward to seeing this thread develop...
mikemorton said:
Wow, please keep this coming Hippo. It's going to be another superb transformation.
Thanks guys
Well time for a bit more, not going to get it finished today I'm afraid though
Oh well! It'll give me something to look forward to
So here's what I had to pop out and get......hopefully the secret weapon in razor head removal! Actually to be fair it wasn't my idea, I saw it somewhere and was very impressed, let's hope it works!
So here's the theory. Remove the olive from the joint and put it back together.
We can now use it as a kind of spreader
PI placed a couple of nylon washers over the razor handle to protect the head.
Then placed our cunning spreader over.
Wrapped the exposed end of the handle in cloth to save it from the jaws the vice, (officially the smallest vice in the world, I'll treat myself to a proper one after Christmas!).
Then I clamped the whole lot up very tight and then expanded our little spreader, which as long as the clamp holds the razor in place should pop the head of with no drama!
And thankfully that's exactly what happened! The head is now safely removed from the tube of the handle.
So here's what we've got so far....
Next stage is to remove the doors from their carrier. Just a simple case of gently prizing them out with a suitably sized flat screw driver.
So here's what we're left with.
Unfortunately that's all I've got time for today, I've turned the dining room into a cross between a workshop and a photographic studio and I need to get it all cleared before SWMBO gets back from work!!! Also I need to work out a way of clamping up the razor to remove the TTO knob. Back soon