Thread: Rust Prevention

Very true. The edge definitely suffers first. I set my worries aside with a hair dryer, a big mason jar, and a handful of silica packets... started doing that after I noticed rusting on blades and for a moment felt helpless to do anything about it... hate that feeling. So I was determined to fix the problem... Lol

So why not just use regular washers and store your razor closed, upside down, on top of a zinc plate (with the spine resting on the plate)?
You get a lot more sacrificial metal, the corrosion grit can be easily removed, and you don't have to modify the razors.

Originally Posted by criswilson10

So why not just use regular washers and store your razor closed, upside down, on top of a zinc plate (with the spine resting on the plate)?
You get a lot more sacrificial metal, the corrosion grit can be easily removed, and you don't have to modify the razors.

That there is some nice "outside the box" thinking.

I was actually thinking of a woodworking friend of mine that lives on a sailboat. He keeps his carving tools in boxes that all have zinc back plates in them that the blades lay on while being stored.

Originally Posted by criswilson10

So why not just use regular washers and store your razor closed, upside down, on top of a zinc plate (with the spine resting on the plate)?.

With razors that I just clean up or want to keep original I wouldn't put zinc washers, but as long as I'm customizing or taking apart, there's no reason why not to install zinc. The zinc causes no more build up than other metals except that if it does happen to (rust), then the tang does not suffer.
When going through ideas before about utilizing zinc, I figured that I would put it in 7 day set boxes with a number of contact points like in the lid when it comes down rests on the spines.. but have never tried it yet.
It must be a natural progression of thought if we both and your friend had similar ideas when presented with the idea of zinc protection.
Anyway, when it comes to the washers contacting the spine, if taking the razor apart already, there really is no reason not to have the redundant protection provided by simply putting zinc in instead of a more royal metal than the tang is constructed of...

I do like the zinc pate idea. It's more simple and easier to put together than the similar ideas I had for zinc protection without needing to use different washers.. I'm definitely going to do that. Thanks for the idea