Thread: New Idea??? Experimentation....

Originally Posted by cudarunner

As my father who was a mechanic, welder and a machinist used to like to say:

"Ya gotta be smarter than the thing your trying to operate".

The problem as I see it is that there are way too many out there that aren't that smart and get hurt because they get lulled into a false sense of security and get out smarted by a machine with no brain.

Truer words have never been spoken my friend! Our dads sound very much alike! Mine was a Marine in WWII as well.

Originally Posted by ProudMarineDad

I do agree my friend but I hate to have to unpin a razor with the original pins in perfectly good shape.

If the blade is in need of restoration, the pins should be of little to no concern. Take it apart carefully and save the original washers. The buffer, dremel, and tumbler all have their pros and cons, and sometimes they overlap. Knowing how and when to use the three seperate the boys from the men.

Been there done that, corn cob and walnut medium, beads, liquid polishers, it may clean some dirt off, but not what you want, in machine shops I have worked in, we would use whats called shakers. Same idea but we use stones and pebbles, hard medium to remove rust, dirt, burnt on oil what ever, took a few hours, also in the hopper was kerosene or lighter fluid. Rust or oxidation is very hard to get off steel, and get it down to bare metal, sometimes they come out with some removable anything and some of those products we would use in the military to remove rust or oxidation, very toxic, and very dangerous, and it would harm some of the metals. Your high carbon steels are easy to etch with the right compounds. Watch what you use on these razors, and above all be safe and know what you are using. We had these compound in the Marine Corps to remove paint from different parts on the aircraft, it was called baby crap, because it looked just like a new born baby's crap, small yellow like balls, you would sped that on the part, and man did it stick and was it toxic and powerful. Saved a lot of time and work, don't ever get in on bare skin. Chemical burn right away, keep it safe.

Originally Posted by ProudMarineDad

Truer words have never been spoken my friend! Our dads sound very much alike! Mine was a Marine in WWII as well.

Mine was a Fireman on the USS Valley Forge 45 during Korea.

Originally Posted by Nphocus

I was in the Air Force for a reason leatherneck

Thank You for your service Airman.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Mine was a Fireman on the USS Valley Forge 45 during Korea.

My wife's dad was on the U.S.S. Saint Paul heavy cruiser during that war.