Thread: Cheap tools for razor restoration

CHEAP TOOLS!!

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Here are some ways to save money and still get great finished razors!
Junk shops,Good Will, Big Pharmacies, all contribute to a good and inexpensive tool box!

Since the original plastic was chitin: horn, antler, Ivory, etcetra; The tools lady love uses upon her fingernails do very well at damage free cleaning and polishing of razor parts!


Milady’s hair care products do well as Sanding blocks.


A tea ball for washing small parts:

Pipe cleaners for the hard to reach places like between the plates on a TTO


A great little 60 power scope from Ebay and or Amazor.Under $5

A tray for soaking hones is easy as a trip to a junk shop! As long as the Rim is higher than the ridges. That way one does not cross contaminate the hones with grits.

Little pill boxes in a bigger box are great for spare parts:

A pill sorter is great for going through your boxes of Miscellaneous!


Have fun!
~Richard

Vibratory brass tumbler available from reloading/gun shops. I use walnut first, then corncob media. You can load your media with any metal polish, I typically use Flitz.

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Yeah, yeah... give away the crown jewels for the Geester. Big fan of MicroMesh polishing cloth - durable, wet sandable and washable, lasts quite a while, precise. Grit 1500 through 12000. Cut small working swatches from larger cloth; note grit # on back of each swatch with indelible marker.

Also, if you already have an electric toothbrush, keep the last worn brush for polishing, cleaning, de-grunging. Good with toothpaste, Barkeeper's Friend, etc.

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Have fun!
~Richard

hair curlers as sanding blocks for the win!!!!

A firm sponge cut to size, wrap sandpaper around it....Sand.

I use a furniture pad ( the ones you place under heavy furniture so you don't scratch the floor) as a sanding surface. It has a slight rounded bowl with a a thick fabric on it..... Use it upside down and place sand paper on it on the fabric side.... Place the blade on it, apply a bi of pressure....sand away.

I live in a 1 BR apartment and I'm between jobs, so $$ is tight. Some of these I have read about here or on other sites. If I don't mention using something personally, then I can't say for sure how well it works.


I bought a Frisbee at Walmart for a $1 (probably at dollar store too) to put my water stone in (which I got cheap because it was cracked).

I don't have a 'lapping stone' (I think that is what they're called). I either put sandpaper on a flat countertop or wrap sandpaper around my Arkansas oilstone to flatten the stone or make a slurry.



Higher amp drill if you don't have a bench polisher/buffer.

File cleaner instead of polishing wheel rake (for cleaning reshaping wheel).

Swivel head pin vices can be bought for under $10. I know at least one member uses one to drill out pins so they can save washer/collars (which also saves $$).

now I have a reason to spend time in that hair products isle now