Thread: help!

I have a fantastic Joseph R, Razor that i aquired, it is perfect, but the pin has a little bit of play, its like the pin hole in the blade its rusted a little bigger, its not real problem to shave with. So my father said just leave it and run some oil with an anti oxidation compound added into it once a year. But what do the pros think here? get it disassembled, drilled and re pinned or just leave it?? i must add its not the scales are loose there is slight play in one horizontal direction..

Try to tighten the pin first, if you do not want to clean the pivot area.
You can do that with a soup spoon, with light taps, or with peen hammer with light taps. Do equal numbers of taps on each side of the pin and regularly check the tightness, until you like it.
If you want to disassemble the razor, I think it will be cheaper to send it out to person that deals with restorations.

Mainaman summed it up. You can take care of it if it's just loose, but if you are talking about the "slop" that some blades have due to the pin hole being elongated then you would need it sleeved to "fix" it. This is just the way that some razors are & to be honest, if you can get it to tighten up, there would be no reason to repin & sleeve it.
Scott

Originally Posted by shooter74743

Mainaman summed it up. You can take care of it if it's just loose, but if you are talking about the "slop" that some blades have due to the pin hole being elongated then you would need it sleeved to "fix" it. This is just the way that some razors are & to be honest, if you can get it to tighten up, there would be no reason to repin & sleeve it.
Scott

Sorry I'm intrigued to know what this "slop" thing really is. Can you explain it abit more please?

Originally Posted by basil

Sorry I'm intrigued to know what this "slop" thing really is. Can you explain it abit more please?

It's when the hole in the tang of the razor is larger than the pin going through it. This is normally fixed by putting a hollow "sleeve" around the pin.

I've also heard slop used just to refer to having an excess of room between the razor and the scales, but I think the poster who used the term meant the first meaning.

Many older razors did not have a rear pivot hole which was drilled through, but rather would have been punched through during the forging process. This did not always deliver truly cylindrical holes. And considering that the tang might have received some additional hammer blows after the hole had been made, it is not uncommon to find that these holes are sometimes stretched or deformed.

The fact that the blade is loose in the scales is the main problem. I would first try tightening the pivot pin and see if that fixes things. I wouldn't worry about the shape of the hole through the tang as a first concern unless it is so grossly large that it affects the way the razor handles. Of course, if you elect to unpin the blade for cleaning and polishing, then, 'yes', you could take a closer look and decide if the hole required some attention as shooter suggests.

These guys have answered it completely. Just tighten it up and it should be just fine.

What a really fast reply! Thank you very much indeed. I might just leave it then as the scales are tight. The J.R shaver is absolutely wonderful for me, I get such a clean shave from it is almost a wedge with the slightest hollowing, I really though there could be little difference between razors but there is and the JR is magic….I want a 2nd one!