Thread: Cell rot...Anyone have any success removing it?

Every now and then I come across a blade that looks salvageable but then I recieve it and BOOM, cell rot. Anyone have any luck saving a blade with cell rot? usually it winds up in the junk pile.

If it is caught early enough the blade may be restored. Depends on how far it has progressed. Hollow grinds start thin. As for the scales, AFAIK they will only continue to degrade, but IIRC Sharptonn posted that 'wet silicone spray' may forestall some of the progress of the gassing ?

yeah, cell rot is bad, definitely get rid of the scales, don't take the chance of it effecting your other razors.

As said, dump the scales and sand by hand is all you can do if it's a thin blade. And that is only if it's not rot all the way through. An edge with pitting is not an edge.

No different that any other blade with corrosion. If it's mild you can clean it off. Sometimes if you don't mind slight pitting it's still very useable. It's when it becomes severe where you can't do anything.