Thread: Aluminium brush rebuild x 4

Have a few aluminum handles to redo.
A Dubl Duck, a C mon, and a rubbetset 3 and 4.


First step will be the unthreading, if possible.
I know the rubbersets screw together from previous rebuilds. Not sure of the duck or cmon. They could be machine swaged.
If so, they will pose a greater challenge.
Intend to pop the dents with a snarling iron and will be ordering up some shavemac's soon enough..
More to follow gents.
Cheers.

Mike, the Duck and possibly the C-Mon are wood under thin aluminum, FME.

I reckon you will see as you unknot them........

Sound hollow, and definately thinner than the cast rubbersets Tom. If they are wood inside, will make for a harder dent removal on that Cmon. The duck, I may try to melt some low temp solder into the eroded areas after some flux.
All just theory till I crack them open though..

As expected, or hoped at least, the rubbersets separated well.


These will now have their under knot base areas soaked in kerosene overnight and they should come apart quite neatly. I just leave them upside down and fill the base up with a half ounce of kerosene and leave them be on the work bench on some rags. The kerosene, being a petroleum distillate attacks the rubber bond holding the knot in the aluminium cap and to date, has worked well on rubberset knot removals..
The Cmon, still no luck unscrewing that one. I get a bit of lateral rotation, then it binds up in either direction. Still not sure it's got a thread in there, but hoping...

Excited to see you work through these Mike.

I'll be waiting and watching.

Was thinking.....Have seen plaster-substance in those.
Might be easy to remove, fix dents, replace.

One Dubl-Duck one I ruined had wood inside. Like your silver brush?
Something is in there!

I don't want to bash TGN, but the reason I started looking for another supplier was because the knots started showing up looking like they had massive bed Head. I even had one where the hair was not glued into the plug perpendicular to the bottom. The quality that Pixel and I were getting back in 2012/2013 was no longer there.

He actually reached out to me and asked if I had noticed the quality of their knots diminishing. They definitely had.

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That is too bad, yet seems typical these days.
My old ones are great...As many as Bill bought, you might think he was getting the best ones...

Mine were indeed the 'finest badger'.

I understand the SM's are pricey...Do they have a stiffer 2-band?

I should add, I did recently purchase some small knots from TGN. A grade A Silvertip, IIRC was an 18mm, and a finest (2 band) that was a 19mm. Both seemed very good. It's been a while since I've purchased a normal sized knot. Maybe they've fixed the issues???

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I'm lucky to have one of the 26mm Grade A's. Very, very nice Silvertip.

The Shavemac Silvertip 2 bands are amazing. Excellent backbone, and very soft tips.

The D01 2 bands I have not tried, but have one sitting here waiting for my lazy arse to make a handle for it. Looking forward to trying it.

I have read that they are much scritchier than the regular 2 band from SM.



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