Thread: TI Replacement Pin and Washers

I ordered the bottom-of-the-line TI replacement scales for a blade I wanted to mount and use. The scales were nice, inexpensive, but the bonus was the pin and washers included. The pin looked like a little nail, but the head looked like a peened pin and washer. The included domed washers were a tad small, and had to be forced slightly onto the pins, where they held very snugly. this made it very easy to snip off the pin quite close and then peen the end of the pin.

It has been the fastest, easiest pinning in my short, novice experience in re-pinning razors.

So....does anyone know where I can buy these pins and itty-bitty domed washers?

I'll try to get a picture, but things that small are hard to get a good picture of.

You can get them from the invisible edge.

I used the pins from InvisibleEdge and they worked well. I was confounded by the tight fit of the domed washers until Steve advised using a piece of drilled plastic to facilitate tapping them into place after balancing them on the tips of the pins.

Classicshaving.com offers a great set for $3.00 a set. Check under display and restoration. I use them all the time.

The Classic Shaving ones at $2.99 are considerably cheaper than UK7 pounds at Invisible Edge.

Originally Posted by johnmrson

The Classic Shaving ones at $2.99 are considerably cheaper than UK7 pounds at Invisible Edge.

Aren't the ClassicShaving ones Dovo? Are they identical to the TI?

Also, maybe I was not clear. I don't want to have to pay $2-$4 for these little parts that actually only cost pennies.

I'd like to buy like 100 of the pins, about another 100 of the little friction washers, but I don't know what they are precisely called at the sites that sell stuff like that, and I don't know the sizes.

If anyone could steer me toward how to do bulk purchases of these parts, I'd be grateful. The washers especially are not the #0 brass washers that are the staple of re-pinning here. They are smaller, domed, and are a hard friction fit over the pin, which has a head that looks like a pin peened into a washer.

Thanks all!

Originally Posted by LawsonStone

Aren't the ClassicShaving ones Dovo? Are they identical to the TI?

Also, maybe I was not clear. I don't want to have to pay $2-$4 for these little parts that actually only cost pennies.

The TI and Dovo pins are the same. I guess you that the pin set is really similar to a nail and a washer. If you can find a small nail the same size as the pin and a washer that will fit tightly over the shaft of it, you could give that a try.

I have looked too Lawson but to no luck so far...

You can find Nails and Pins in brass but you have to Anneal them so they peen well... then you are still looking for the washers...

Havent found them in NiAg, I have wondered if I could just make them???

The washers in that set are indeed a tight fit. This is intentionally so. The force required to tap the washers down tight on the pin against the side of the scale actually holds everything tight making it very easy to nip off the end of the pin and then peen it down.

At the factory they usually use two (2) of those little washers per razor pin (one nested inside the other).

Originally Posted by johnmrson

The TI and Dovo pins are the same. I guess you that the pin set is really similar to a nail and a washer. If you can find a small nail the same size as the pin and a washer that will fit tightly over the shaft of it, you could give that a try.

Which is only to ask my original question. I'm not a tool guy. I don't know what microfasteners or whoever would call that little nail with a head that looks like a peened pin and domed washer. I don't know the size, and I don't know what to call those little tight-fitting washers, and I don't know that size.

I was hoping someone had already done my work for me and could just say "Hey, order parts XXXX and 1234 from dinkyparts-r-us."

Yes, I'm lazy as well as ornery!

Ironically, I found a source for the IT pins, but I don't think the washers come with them from that merchant. I'll know in about a week.