Thread: Nickel silver domed compound washers.

Hi, gents.
The original scales MikeT sent me for the Viking arrived, and I need to attach them to the blade.
I would like to use the same pins and washers usually found in Heljestrands, nickel silver, but I can't find any source of that little washers.
This washers are domed and stacked over tinier washers that hides under the external polished ones against the scales.
Where can I find this kind of NS washers? I just see SS flat washers for sale, or pinning kits with "pseudo-pins" (little nails with preformed heads simulating rivets).

Make them.
Get the flat washers and use a doming block.
Harbor Freight has one that is not that expensive.

Shipping and taxes in Brasil makes this prohibitive, and I will not be restoring razors often. Besides this, I'll try to kludge something. Thank you.

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Make them.
Get the flat washers and use a doming block.
Harbor Freight has one that is not that expensive.

The Harbor Freight Doming Block works very well. Quite a few dome sizes to work.
You will also need something to make the washers if you want custom sizes.
The Roper-Whitney Jr. 5 makes several sizes of washers.

RandyDance turned me on to the Roper-Whitney tool.

I drilled a couple of domes into a steel block and then used a dremel with a domed grinding bit to smooth everything out. Works pretty well. I am still in the process of trying to figure out a way to stamp out washers that look like tiny finishing washers like the originals not just domed.

I too have a steel block that I made domes in. I started with a drill bit the exact diameter of the flat washer, made a shallow hole and then used a rotary bit to make it a dome. I then took a smaller dill bit and snapped it off so it was just the smooth shaft and used it to make my punch. I use two dome washers, bottom one facing in and the top one facing out to pin with and it turns out fairly close, it you use small enough washers. In the pinning process they squish together enough that you cannot see that there is two washers. If you have a medium sized flat washer domed you can also put it on top of a small flat washer and get a very similar look. Experimentation is the key.

Yup, make em.

I have the HF doming set and it works well, but for soft metals you could easily make one from hard wood, maple would be fine for doing a few collars. Either drilling and smoothing or just pounding a ball bearing into the block, does not have to be all that deep.

I have mounted small Micro Fastener washers on a mandrel & chucked in a drill press or Dremel and filed them down with a fine file, diamond plate or sand paper. Stack a set of 4 so they are all the same size. Make a spacer from a small plastic, (ball point pen) or brass tube stock to clear the mandrel head and base to make thin ones. A mini Jacobs chuck is a life saver HF sells one for $15, don’t recall where I got mine.

Or punch them from flat stock with paper punch, you can buy small paper punches from a craft store, for as cheap as $5, then dome them on the maple block. Polish them individually on the mandrel spinning on fine wet & dry and metal polish.

Like this
40 Nickel Silver Dome Washers FOR Repair Restore OF OLD Sheffield Razors Wade | eBay

Like this, just smaller in outer diameter. I put my hands on some NS foils and assorted steel ball bearings and I'll hammer the foil with the bearings over a lead ingot later to see what can I achieve.

Ball bearings and lead block sound like a good idea. I used to use a rounded nail and the end grain of a hard wood block to dome washers.

Here is a link to an old thread
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...tml#post554200

Charlie