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More progress!
Today I got the punch for the under collars working great. What you're seeing there is a bunch of the triple stacked washers and a bunch of steel collars to go under them. Next to those are the bit and receiver from my hand-held power punch, but I stuck the bit into my drill press and used a file to shape the end of it to have a 1/16th nub and a more chamfered edge.
So, all I have to do is pre-drill 1/16th holes in steel sheet. What I'm using now is technically a bit too thick at 26 gauge, and it's also coated, but since these are going under the display collars, it should be fine. Once the holes are drilled the punch will sink into them then punch the little rounded washers, perfectly centered.
Who really cares though, without pictures of how it looks compared to originals?
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I don't need to tell you which is which because the vintage ones still have enough grime in them to be obvious. And no, they aren't an exact match... But neither are the same washers on any given razor of the same style. There's a wide amount of variation in the originals, and that includes tiny bits of flash sticking out and fairly different heights.
And here's an extreme closeup.
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I'm using the drill press to cut out all the parts, here. The under collars are a 2-step process and the outer collars are 3 step. Retooling for each step takes 15-20 seconds, which is a little annoying when you're making 1-2 of them, but when you're making 30 or more, it's no big deal, and drilling the pin holes is the same for both sets of washers.
