Thread: Machinist stone tools for the pivot area.

So this may have been mentioned before, but I didn't find it. It seems the regular suggestions of q-tips, dental picks, and not so well advertised use of fiberglass pencils seems to be the standard way for taking care of rust in the pivot area. I wasn't satisfied with it. I always slip with the pick, and put a big gouge in the scale somewhere. Qtips weren't abrasive enough, and seemed just a smidge too big. I did buy a fiberglass pencil, but I was slowly abrading the interior of the scales with it as well. Could be operator error, but I thought there might be another way. I came into a large lot of abrasive sticks at an auction, and saw my opportunity. So the bad news is, I haven't done enough research to tell you how much these things cost, or the actual grits of them, but I use the less abrasive ones, and they all have numbers on them, which would facilitate purchase if you so choose. Anyhow, here's the pics. Before and after, plus one or two of the stick in question. And finally a link to the company that sells this brand of abrasive stick. Norton makes them also though, and I have some of those too. It just happens that this one worked best for me. This is just initial cleanup with no polishing done afterwards. Just something to consider fellahs, if you haven't already. I've done this with other razors that had more buildup and the results were actually a little better, but I think I was using a different stick that time (already forgot which one), and I didn't take any pictures of it. Total time investment of roughly 15 minutes. I left the rest on the tail just in case it'd help you see the difference. If you got any questions about it, feel free. I've got assorted grits, and compositions to continue working the fine details out with.

Abrasives

Meant as an alternative to unpinning, for those people who live in apartments with paper thin walls, and no access to power tools. Or who would otherwise have need to avoid any sort of incessant tapping in such locations.

Would work to a point,is just that it is so easy to unpin and re-pin and do a complete job instead of 70% JMO