Thread: avoiding rust in the pivot area

If you wipe the lather and whisker on a dry washcloth you dont have to rinse. If you dont rinse you dont get rust.

Depending on what the scales are made of you could introduce one of the acidic rust reformer solutions. Cold blue, oxalic acid, Phosphoric acid, tannic acid. This would result in converting the red rust to black rust.

Personally I have made myself be very careful of water around the razor. I accomplish this by removing the lather with a dry washcloth.

If you have the razor unpinned and fixed, have brass washers added.

Jonathan

I just realized the same thing happened to my razor.

I try to never get the pivot pin area wet when shaving or honing. I like single use dental floss that is attached to the plastic holders that you can buy bags of, and every few weeks I use it on the pivot pin area of every razor I own just as a precaution. It is also handy on dirty restorations to decide if you need to re-pin.

I like to use eucalyptus EO Blend in a spray bottle. Just run a peice of toilet pat on either side of the blade and give a little spritz of the oil every so often. PS eucalyptus eo makes an excellent pre shave regimine. I use it every time. It is soothing, lubricating and contains highly anti-bacterial properties as well. O yea and point in case... no rust!!!

As part of my clean up routine, I clean and wipe my blade and scales, running some tissue between the scales. With that, I dip the open blade into a bottle with a 75%-25% mix of rubbing alcohol and mineral spirits. One floats on top of the other. This is your basic WD-40 mixture.

The razor goes into the bottle well past the pivot. What happens is that between the oil and the alcohol, whatever water still on the blade or scales is removed and the pivot and blade are coated with a protective film. Wipe off the excess and you're good to go.

Cleans out the gunk in the pivot areas of the blades that I haven't repinned.

It's a "Mr. Wizard" moment.

In reality,water or lather should never come close to the pivot.