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What would make a blade when closing draw to one side? In other words, toward the scale of a particular side. I have a Revisor that has done this and there has been no damage done to the scales or razor. Could it be a washer that has worn down on the pivot or what have you guys seen that build and repair scales???
Probably scale warping duo to dehydration (natural) or heat/chemical deformation (termoplástica and other synthetics.
Wondered if that could be the culprit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matheus
If we knew what the scales were made of it would REALLY help
A picture of the Pivot area from the tail toward the toe would also really help :)
It could be something as simple as a slightly bent pin throwing your blade off center when closing, but unless we have the razor in hand then all we can do is speculate.
It is thermoplastic as indicated by Revisor. I will post a picture later this evening.
Either the scales are warped somewhere
or there's something about the pivot area, being it a crooked/bent pin
or just a bad peening job, too much pressure on a certain place which gives the blade a different alignment, peening on different areas on the pin affects how the razor sits in the scales, this is relatively easy to solve, hitting the pin in the right spot to align it right; unless when the pin becomes too tight. A re-pinning with hitting in the right spots will align it correctly.
Either that or the blade itself is warped.
So it's either:
- Scales warped
- Pivot pin bent or not peened correctly
- Blade warped
Or a combination
Here are two pictures same angle but one does a better job showing how extreme.Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
BTW- The scales seem symmetrical as far as on side view and appear uniform. Maybe it could be a pivot pin that is bent but how would the razor go from on center to off center when they are treated with the utmost care???
Stand by for picture from tail to toe.....
Here is the last picture and while I never really noticed you can see from this perspective the scale on the right is higher. Never noticed before!!!!
If the scale on the right is higher then this is usually a sign that you have a bent twisted pivot pin.
Makes sense! May have to send this one off to be re-scaled with a nice set of scales or try to re-scale attempt myself for the first time!!! :wQuote:
Originally Posted by celticcrusader
You might try just giving it a little twist between your thumbs first :) The pins are easy to bend back too
Another trick is to simply dip the pivot in boiling water for a few seconds and give the razor a little twist and hold it that way until cool...
The very last option is tearing the razor apart...
What you do is up to you, how I usually try to fix this on old razors, is to tactically hit the pivot pin
if that fails, I will file down the pin and re-pin.
How I hit the pin is how I learnt it from gssixgun's videos IIRC.
The way I usually do is, I position the tip of the razor on my left hand side and the tail of the razor on my right hand side, and lay the pivot pin on an anvil or another hammer.
Then I look to which direction the razor pulls.
If the razor is closest to the back scale or hitting the back scale, I hit the pivot pin on the bottom, this way the razor will eventually come more towards the front scale.
And vice versa,
If the razor is hitting the front scale, I will hit the pivot pin more on the top, so it will travel more towards the back razor.
after hitting it a couple of times, I open and close the razor a couple of times, this will usually influence the position a bit, followed by a little more tactical peening until the razor centers the way I like it
It usually takes quite a good pounding for me to do so, but I advise everybody to carefully do this; I do hit it a little hard at times though.
But with bent pins, it can be unpredictable sometimes how the razor's position will change and this might not work all the time then
Also, if it needs a lot of adjusting, the pin might get pretty tight though, a little too tight to be good
And as I can see you will have the uneven scale heights, that would probably bother me though
Will give this a whirl first! Thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
Just go slow Michael, a few small corrections are better then trying for the ONE big correction..Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael70
That's a big 10-4! Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun