Thread: Quick washer question

Originally Posted by JellyJar

A couple of fingers of my favorite beverage, a good nights sleep, and I'm good to go on with this project. I was cutting 1/16" brass rod. I was looking at the break in the cutter and I suspect there was a heat treat problem as the grain structure is really coarse. The pic of the scale and cutter is below. My plan was to CA the pieces back together as I've had success with this in the past. I broke the tip of my Genco scale off through the pivot hole when I was driving the pin out and I'ts been holding up well (the Genco is in the razor clubs if you want to see it). If there are techniques you think will work better I'm all good with learning new stuff. Though I did just get in some tortoise shell Kirinite...

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I too have the Made By The C. H. Ina. Company flush cutters but I have ground the back side flat and have made the cutter much thinner. I find that if this isn't done then they put extra pressure on the scales when cutting the pin and thus comes breakage.

I hope this is of some help.

Scales are shot, don't see a reliable repair.

BTW. Those look more like gate cutters for cutting lead not brass n Nickle

Originally Posted by outback

Scales are shot, don't see a reliable repair.

BTW. Those look more like gate cutters for cutting lead not brass n Nickle

What cutters???????

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I too have the Made By The C. H. Ina. Company flush cutters but I have ground the back side flat and have made the cutter much thinner. I find that if this isn't done then they put extra pressure on the scales when cutting the pin and thus comes breakage.

I hope this is of some help.

The cutters were Cresent brand, I'd filed and polished the flush edge as they were a bit less than flush. I was cutting the wire well above the scale, I'm pretty sure the blade struck them with a fair amount of force when it snapped. Needless to say, I'll be using my regular size cutters to trim my pins to length. I've been using a drill press to remove the pins anyway, so not really a big loss.

Originally Posted by outback

Scales are shot, don't see a reliable repair.

BTW. Those look more like gate cutters for cutting lead not brass n Nickle

Well if they're done they're done. I think I'll give it a shot anyway. I'd like to get one shave out of it if I can. The blade is a double hollow, which I haven't tried before. So, if I can keep them together to try the different grind I'll make new ones later. Thanks for the look/advice.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

What cutters???????

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Originally Posted by cudarunner

I too have the Made By The C. H. Ina. Company flush cutters ....
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Please don't force me to use the Ignore list, Roy, OK?

Don't be that guy...

Originally Posted by Speedster

Please don't force me to use the Ignore list, Roy, OK?

Don't be that guy...

Good Enough For Glen---Good Enough For Me!

I use the Starret when I'm clipping pins to final length before filing. The C. H. Ina that I ground down as per Glen's instructions are what I use when I want to just clip the pins and don't care much about the washers/collars.

Just to let you know how things turned out. Got the scale fixed, flatted some washers, got her pinned up. I'm definitely in the add washers camp. It opens/closes much smoother than it did without the washers. The scale turned out pretty well. It may break in the future, but that's fine since I mostly want to try this double hollow grind. Right now one pin is brass with the original nickel. I'll correct it later. I mostly started this one while I was waiting for pieces/parts for another razor I'm working on. I got much more interested when I saw the grind. I just need to get this honed up and give it a try Since my parts came in, I'll be shifting back to the other project for awhile. Pic of the repaired scale below. You can see a small hairline with magnification, but otherwise it's pretty invisible.