This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:
• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique
Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.
if anyone has tried an ultrasonic to clean razors what solution did you use? wasn’t sure what to put in mine, figured water and couple drops of dish soap couldn’t hurt. it got it cleaner but missed some spots. was cleaning a blackbird and it didnt get all the stuff in the grooves of the handle.
Simple Green has always worked well for me. Sometimes I have to run a couple cycles to get everything off, depends on how dirty the razor is and also how good your USC is. In my experience you don’t get really good results with one cycle until you’re a couple hundred deep on your USC. Something about changing modulation if the frequencies being needed to keep them effective if I recall correctly. Been a minute.
Thanks. Just picked up some SG.
edit: the simple green working great! 10 minutes and razors coming out like brand new! it was always annoying to me how hard it was to get into all the nooks and crannies, pretty much just accepted the fact that there would always be dried soap or whatever in there, this makes it easy.
I use a few drops of Dawn. After ultrasonic for a few minutes I lightly scrub the razor parts with a nylon brush to loosen anything that didn’t release during the ultrasonic bath. I’ve been very happy with the results.
Thats what I did. Water as hot as it comes out of the tap, and a splash of Dawn. Still learning it. My Flare tips took about 6 90 second trips through the bath, and soft toothbrush to remove the stubborn bits of crud in the knurling.