Thread: Repairing Pivot Hole In Blade

Originally Posted by BobH

The thing I found with older Sheffield razors and over sized pivot holes was that they were more oval than round. I had a razor that would shift forward enough when closing to touch the wedge.

Bob

A bit oversize as Glen says is fine I think,When they are oval, thats when I bush them.

Interesting this thread showed up, the main reason, in the end, for the problem with the scales for my W&B Anchor razor, was the scales were very badly warped because the hole for the pivot pin wasn't drilled correctly, and the old scales were bent and warped out of shape to make up for the incorrectly drilled hole.

But yes, it was mentioned that this problem isn't that unusual in the older Sheffield blades, and the Anchor razor definitely has a lot of years on it.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

A bit oversize as Glen says is fine I think,When they are oval, thats when I bush them.

Yea, there is over sized and then there is over sized. Agreed, a "round" slightly over sized hole is no biggie but all of the few older Sheffies I have seen would not fit that qualification. Makes you wonder with what and how the created those pivot holes.

Bob

There are some really good discussions about this from way back

Those slightly "Off" holes were punched not drilled, there was a bit of disagreement whether they became worse over the years, you guys know how those discussions go

The real issues and why some of us even started the sleeves was the we were pushing the tolerances tighter on the scale builds, 1/8"+ clearance was very common even 1/4"+ some were getting close to 1/2" on the distance between the wedge and the point.. When you have those large clearances the larger slop was acceptable, but we started building things a bit tighter and that gap shrunk so we started getting tighter on the pivot hole also...
Whether you need to sleeve it is a choice for you to make, to me it is a few pennies in material and a couple of minutes it time to take up the slack so it is an automatic...