Thread: How do you UN-pin razor scales?

G'day Mate

Cover the pin with a single layer of masking tape or electrical tape then use a small fine file... like a warding file, mill file or second cut file (i use a mill file) to grind down the peened end of the pin.

After a couple of strokes accross the pin you'll find that the washers (or collars) fall off the pin... this tells you you're getting pretty close to removing the section of pin that was deformed by peening...

Very gently grind for another couple of strokes until the pin looks like it is perfectly round and of orginal diameter then use something like a pop rivet or a short length of 1/16 brass rod as a dolly to gently punch the pin through to the opposite side scale and the blade will come free...

Be extremely careful not to use a dolly that is bigger than the diameter of the hole that is drilled through the scales or you will be trying to expand that hole and will almost certainly split that end of the scale.

The tape should stop you or at least warn you that you're about to rub the file accross the syrface of the scale and leave the tell tale score markes on the scale material...

Hope that is understandable

Greg Frazer