Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh hell, Brother. Goofy piston relief things are the least of my worries. That is nothing til it is all back together! Water pump locked, timing belt broke, lunched a pile of the 32 valves

Gonna finish honing this contraption tomorrow and hopefully post an SOTD with it Sunday.
Fix some junk, willya guys?

Interference engines have a tendency to do that when the timing belts go.

Originally Posted by outback

Double overhead. Gotta love it.

This pile and a whole lot more have to go in. My Doctor ain't got nothing on me. Why am I poor?

Certainly I have paid for my education by now?




Fix some poor old blades, Fellas!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

"Can't sit idle" My mantra exactly Mike.

Powdered sunlight or tide laundry detergent, if you can still find it.
That's the best hand cleaner I've found for my grubby mitts if I am taking m'lady courtin'.
Sure lets you know where all the cuts are, but does a great job under the nails and on the tuff grime. I just wet my hands and dip em in the box. Scrub freely.

Great looking bevel set Tom. I am afraid to start now seeing how nice yours looks. Mine get ugly quickly on these big blades historically.. Little gun shy I think, hehe.

Oh man! Don't let that big bully Sharptonn get you down! You can do it! hehehe
But seriously, your blade has come from one that I would put aside to one that i would be proud of. Keep going!
Just kidding Tom, about the bullying...

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh hell, Brother. Goofy piston relief things are the least of my worries. That is nothing til it is all back together! Water pump locked, timing belt broke, lunched a pile of the 32 valves

Normally aspirated or boosted 8 Tom? And from the LX or SC? Gotta ask how fast you were going when that happened?
Ouch, I feel your pain bro..But it's a good powerplant worth fixing.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Normally aspirated or boosted 8 Tom? And from the LX or SC? Gotta ask how fast you were going when that happened?
Ouch, I feel your pain bro..But it's a good powerplant worth fixing.

HA! I am an auto Tech, Mike. My own small shop, a dying breed, I suppose. It is an LS, so nothing extreme, except for the extremity of it all! Those Japanese cars are intricate!

Worked at the Lexus assembly plant in Cambridge for three years. I hear ya about them intricacies.. They built Lexus and Toyota at the facility. Pumped out 3000 Toyota's to every 80 Lexusus, Lexi? whatever their plural is. As far as Japanese cars go, a very good one.
I'm a German auto fan presently after a life of American Muscle myself.

Originally Posted by MikeT

Oh man! Don't let that big bully Sharptonn get you down! You can do it! hehehe
But seriously, your blade has come from one that I would put aside to one that i would be proud of. Keep going!
Just kidding Tom, about the bullying...

Ha! Just have to keep on grinding and honing to get things right.

A great benefit from this thread is that we can advise on different problems along the way. Getting them shaving is all a part of it.
IMO, a great bevel and shaving edge is positive criteria for a "Razor'. Restored, or not.
"If it don't shave, 'tis not a razor"
Yeah. I said that!

Can't thread jack my own thread so I digress for a minute cause my other passion is cars.
I took a 1990 VW Corrado with a supercharger in it, stock 160HP, did it up as far as I could take the 90 technology. About 220 hp and 12 lbs of boost.
Then I swapped out the engine with a 2002 1.8Stg2 Turbo and upgraded the ecu and harness to 2002 as well. Modded the engine mgmt with some help from friends on a Corrado Forum. Now I have modern electronic's, launch control, and around 21 lbs of boost and an estimated 390 hp in a car weighing 1600 lbs.

Did all the grunt work myself over a month in the driveway, but did all the engine work the winter before in preparation. Teaching my son to drive it now so he can take over when my knees won't lift me out anymore, hehe.
In small red stylized font on the back hatch under the wing it says "der Schläfer". Translates to 'The Sleeper', but since the spoiler only goes up at 80 kmh, few people get to read it.
And now back to razors...

You guys are doing some great razor work and your auto mods are quite technical, so, I doubt my 45Hp s10 2.2L diesel is not gonna rattle ya's, but the economy at 40mpg might make you stop and think. near 800,000.00 miles on the rig now, going strong but the body is wearing out.
I used to build engines for some of the top name racers in the 70's Shirley M. and Don P. the Snake.

Not sure if you guys realize it, but you are great teachers.

Even though I never expect to do what you're doing for a number of reasons, seeing how you are doing it step by step lets all of us inexperienced folks know how some lesser "clean-ups" may be done by us, as well as making me and others appreciate beautiful classic razor rescues when we see or (better yet) get to experience one on our face.

I have one of those beautifully saved great ones, and it is my favorite. I also have modern manufacture blades that shave well, but just don't have the feel of history and craftsmanship or the feel in the hand like some of the old ones had in them. Maybe it's my imagination, but razors like you guys are showing in this and other threads have that something special about them. I wished I had lived in the time when you could walk into a razor shop, and feel a variety of blades, all great, until I felt the one that just felt perfect for me. Of course I'd miss Air Conditioning, living where I live

Thanks to all who are participating in the thread and showing the possibilities!