Thread: Is CLR safe on SRs and their scales?

Might want to think about a product named Evapo-Rust. My experience is that it's safe on metal and scales.


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Love the Genco’s shaved with one this morning.

Be careful with chemicals and old clear celluloid scales, you can kick off Cell rot.

Some steel wool, and 1k paper should get it gleaming but, you probably want to un-pin that one, to clean up the pin, translucent scales show everything.

You have to start some time, go slow file a flat on the pin, center punch a dimple and use a small center drill/counter sink in a drill press, to start your hole, then a 1/16 drill in a pin vise.

Did I say, go slow?

I've soaked DE razors in CLR for a few days with no ill effect. Not sure I would put an entire straight razor in it though. Maybe just the blade but at that point there's better methods.

From what I am seeing I would try a good metal polish first as the rust doesn't look that bad on the one side of the blade. I don't resort to sanding until I give polish like Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish a try, if that does not get satisfactory results then I consider more abrasive.

Unpinning the scales does make it possible to do a better job of cleaning but be very careful as old celluloid scales can be very brittle and are easy to break.......trust me, I've broken more than one set that I wanted to keep. Unpinning and rescaling isn't that hard you just have to be very careful.

I won't comment on the CLR as I have not tried it.