Thread: Why sterilize? Public service message.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Go on down to your nearest river and take some water and boil it for 60sec, then take a drink and let me know how it's going after you get out of the hospital.

You need around 20 min of boiling to really get rid of everything.

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I should have specified deionized water like I use............

Barbicide as soon as I receive a razor for honing, restore, personal use, etc.

Barbicide after I test shave/before mailing it back. Simple.

But Jimmy,Like me your half Dead

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I tattooed people for 25 years. I got my first tattoo about 50 years ago when tattooers used the same machine, needles, ink jars, on one customer after another. Shaved the area with a straight razor, and washed it with a sea sponge in a bucket with a bit of Lysol in the water in case there might be any germs. Not recommended since the 1980s or so, but that was routine for most of the 20th century.
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In order to transmit a blood borne pathogen the blade would have to be relatively freshly used, by an infected individual, other than yourself. I've shaved with hundreds of old razors and yet to sterilize the first one and I'm still alive to tell the tale. YMMV.

MMMMmmm Lysol bucket() ....... Scrumptious. You make me wanna get a battleship chest tattoo just reading that. ......Well actually, maybe just Mom on the fore arm

Okay....you guys, this is the proper way to clean a razor. Dispute settled.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I tattooed people for 25 years. I got my first tattoo about 50 years ago when tattooers used the same machine, needles, ink jars, on one customer after another. Shaved the area with a straight razor, and washed it with a sea sponge in a bucket with a bit of Lysol in the water in case there might be any germs. Not recommended since the 1980s or so, but that was routine for most of the 20th century.
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In order to transmit a blood borne pathogen the blade would have to be relatively freshly used, by an infected individual, other than yourself. I've shaved with hundreds of old razors and yet to sterilize the first one and I'm still alive to tell the tale. YMMV.

Brings back memorys.Back in the 1960s was A tatoo artist who would set up at the San Jose Flea market every weekend.
He did fantastic work.
In his stall he had two 5 gal buckets,one for bloody rags,one for clean rags,(full of blackish water and a gal. jug of lysol.
Made me sick to watch him work.

Over the years, this stuff seems to have killed off anything my immune system couldn't handle. Tempest in a tea pot says I.


Once the initial cleaning and honing is done no one but me shaves with the razor so I'm just recycling my own cooties, right?

Simple solution. Move to Australia. The quickest I ever got something in the mail was 6 days up to 1 month. Everything is dead well before you can even get your hands on it. Problem solved.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Brings back memorys.Back in the 1960s was A tatoo artist who would set up at the San Jose Flea market every weekend.
He did fantastic work.
In his stall he had two 5 gal buckets,one for bloody rags,one for clean rags,(full of blackish water and a gal. jug of lysol.
Made me sick to watch him work.

The first professional tattoo I ever got was put on by Stanley Moskowitz, known today @ 80+ years old, as Bowery Stan. It was the little 'Hot Stuff' devil, cost $10.00 and he put it on like lightning. He was working out of jars and, other than the black outline, the colors were red, green, and a dab of yellow. The tattoo was on my forearm and I was watching intently. The tube on the color machine will pick up a certain amount of blood, and when he dipped into the cold cream jar containing the yellow, I saw a slight discoloration of blood contaminate the yellow in the jar. Turned my stomach, and I'll never forget it.

And that's why so many older guys have hep c now.