Thread: Broken scale repair?

I've used thin brass sheets you can get at a hobby store, cut to size with a scissors and glue in place with super glue, it makes for a very stable repair. I'm not sure on the best way to hide the line on anything other than black scales which can be fixed with pencil lead powder and slow drying super glue then sanded and polished

I do something similar but a bit more time consuming. Line the insides of both scales with a thin metal sheet of stainless steel or other material like copper, cut to size, glued and pinned into place.

This is slightly off-topic but I've read of people trying to straighten scales that were deformed causing the blade to not be centered and to hit one side of the scales.

The technique I read of always involves boiling water and sticking the scales in. It seems sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I haven't needed to try something like this yet with razors but I have worked with shaping or flattening plastic for other purposes. I've done this by putting it in the oven at no more than 250 F for about 30 seconds (on a cookie sheet).

You just take it out, put a book on top until it cools and if it needs to flatten more, you just repeat the above steps.

Has anyone here tried that with razor scales? I could see this being a problem possibly with celluloid but for other types of plastic this would seem to work.

Originally Posted by gcbryan

This is slightly off-topic but I've read of people trying to straighten scales that were deformed causing the blade to not be centered and to hit one side of the scales.

The technique I read of always involves boiling water and sticking the scales in. It seems sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I haven't needed to try something like this yet with razors but I have worked with shaping or flattening plastic for other purposes. I've done this by putting it in the oven at no more than 250 F for about 30 seconds (on a cookie sheet).

You just take it out, put a book on top until it cools and if it needs to flatten more, you just repeat the above steps.
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Has anyone here tried that with razor scales? I could see this being a problem possibly with celluloid but for other types of plastic this would seem to work.

I've done the boiling water fix and it does work, 20-30 seconds in boiling water, reshape the scales then set them with cold water

I've always used a heat lamp, works with horn or plastic