View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
aalpha Nicest Guy In The Universe/Site Admin
Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 8399 Location: Where ever you need me I'll be there. Whatever you need done I'll do it. Made in the USA.
|
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:40 am Post subject: My first new topic in a year probably |
|
|
We have a consumer advocate guru here in the states named Clark Howard. He is the el supreemo poster boy of penny pinching miserly tight-waddedness.
A couple of years or so ago I heard him on the radio telling about some guy who called in on his radio show. The caller is a metallurgist and he claimed that the act of shaving your face does not dull a razor blade. Legs and armpits for you girls.
What dulls the blade is corrosion. Pure and simple. And the cause of corrosion is leaving the razor wet. So he claimed to have made a small fan that would blow dry the razor and thus almost eliminate corrosion.
Well I waited for the million dollar gadget to hit the market but it never came. I found a web site that touted a razor dryer for a particular brand of ladies razor but there was no way to order it.
It looked like a test page that never was finished and left "out there" or something.
So by and by I thought "we *are* talking about moving air over, through and around a hand held razor, right?"
So why pay $19.95 for something I already have fans galore to do?
Did you ever wonder where the word "so" came from? It's so convenient. Seeeeeee???
So I got out a razor someone gave me once upon a time - one of those fancy five blade Fusion razors and I started shaving with it. And I religiously put that razor in front of a fan immediately after shaving.
I have been using that one razor head since Aug 25th 2009. Yes I have and it still shaves like a new blade; 1 year, 2 months, and 18 days.
Those are 2 small buckets, a round one and a more or less square one that make a perfect slot to firmly hold the razor upright.
Well what do you think of that? _________________
Last edited by aalpha on Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:42 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Vagilik Veteran Contributer
Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Posts: 494 Location: Las Vegas, NV United States
|
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
ha! very nice. whatever works. whoulda thunk it? gonna have to give that a shot since razor refills are so expensive. probably save at leat 100 bux a year. _________________ Keyboard not connected, press F1 to continue. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lamiaceae Site Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7651 Location: To the right of my computer
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
AVARiCE Lowering the Tone Since 2005
Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 5780 Location: London, England
|
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
This is very, very cool. On every forum there's one or two guys who actually "do" stuff. warwgn and aalphie-poo are ours.
~ AVARiCE _________________
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
aalpha Nicest Guy In The Universe/Site Admin
Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 8399 Location: Where ever you need me I'll be there. Whatever you need done I'll do it. Made in the USA.
|
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
RE: Chains and hooks. I guess yer browser doesn't show you the word fern? Hmmmmm? As in that's what hangs on the chains and hooks not who owns them. _________________
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
aalpha Nicest Guy In The Universe/Site Admin
Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 8399 Location: Where ever you need me I'll be there. Whatever you need done I'll do it. Made in the USA.
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lamiaceae Site Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7651 Location: To the right of my computer
|
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I came in here expecting something about Mozilla Firefox. Glad you still are carrying on with the razor experiment
How much did you use to spend on razors a year?
How much did you spend on electricity before and after running this fan? ( don't forget to factor in he cost of buying the replacement fans and spreading that across the year )
You can then work out the saving you've incurred. I just wonder if this shaves much off
Sorry, bad joke and a long winded way of getting to the punchline _________________ I should update my sig. What to put here for $CurrentYear ? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
aalpha Nicest Guy In The Universe/Site Admin
Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 8399 Location: Where ever you need me I'll be there. Whatever you need done I'll do it. Made in the USA.
|
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
A pack of 4 new razor heads is 12 to 14 dollars. I can't remember how long razors normally last but the fan was between 7 and 8 dollars. I doubt if I can calculate the cost of electricity but it must be near negligible. The AC is the power monster.
If I stop using this razor on 25aug and only use the 4 replacements I have 2 years each it will be 10 years before I need new ones. Even then I could put them on a Christmas list somewhere and they'd be free.
I may start doing that this year and start stock piling them now. In a few years I may have enough to last the rest of my life. And if you say I prob don't have 10 years left I'll put a southern curse on all your keyboards.
what I'm doing is the way to go. Of course if the whole world follows my lead, no one will make blades in a few years and we'll all either have to grow beards or use electric razors.
Imagine the workers who make blades now, loosing their job and they go to a free seminar on how to make unemployment money go further and the knot head at the front of the room says "one last tip for those of you who shave, you can blow dry your razor. . . . .
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
_________________
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|