Thread: Manual clippers

Treat them the same as an electric version. On the ones i have done you can see the wear pattern become flat but a sharpie could help also. Do both sides and the WHOLE blade not just the teeth. I used mostly circles! Lets not restart that argument!

A good point brought up is to remember to keep squeezing when moving. Harder than you might think when looking in a mirror!

Originally Posted by Magpie

First thing to do is take it apart as much as possible and CLEAN IT. It could be gunked up from prior owners using lubricants on it which years later, and a ton of dead hair bits later, is a sticky mess.
Once you have it apart, you can also determine if the blade and/or body can be sharpened.

When I took it apart it didn't look like it had anything on it, it simply only was steel, nothing like lubricants or hair...

clipper oil is best.

So it's just like sharpening regular clipper blades?

By the way, is there anything that you should use to lubricate/oil it (don't know the english word), cause it was "sqweking" (once again, don't know the word! ). Can you use the same as for regular once?

I think that you are over thinking this. Do you have an electric clipper? If so look at the blades and I bet there is not much if any difference.

Originally Posted by johlun

So it's just like sharpening regular clipper blades?

By the way, is there anything that you should use to lubricate/oil it (don't know the english word), cause it was "sqweking" (once again, don't know the word! ). Can you use the same as for regular once?

Pretty much the same as electric clipper blades. as for oil, the instructions for my clipper say to use a very fine, light oil. Sewing machine oil would probably work a treat.

I have a bottle of Wahl clipper oil for mine