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mojocracker
10-14-2011, 08:32 PM
This arrived in my mail box several weeks ago. I have been having so much fun using at as one of my "first string" rotators that I haven't had a chance to post about it.

As the box attests, this is an old school Tech. But how "old" school. The neo-western graphics bespeak of the hippy-western 1970's or late '60's. You know, that whole Butch Cassidy-Kenny Rogers-Kenny Loggins feel? ("I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in").

And I have seen this box described as everything from '30's to '50's vintage.

But yet, this item curiously came packaged with a New Short Comb head along with the Tech head.

So...

Was that an original offering from Gillette, comb and no-comb in one nifty package?
Is the handle (nicely 8g heavier than a standard new) proper for the Tech or the New head?

(I also learned that there is 8g difference in weight with the comb head being that much heavier than the Tech head.)

Thanks for any feedback you care to give!! So much to learn.

Copierguy
10-14-2011, 08:59 PM
The Tech head is the correct head with that case not the OC head.

Here is on set form 1946 with a different handle (http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1946%20(R1%20on%20blade)%20Contract%20Tech.JPG) or 1949 from Canada (http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1949%20(U1%20on%20Blade)%20Tech%20Canada.JPG).

mojocracker
10-14-2011, 09:37 PM
Thanks CG. BTW, here is the original listing for anyone's edification...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/230665168410?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

mojocracker
10-14-2011, 09:39 PM
Also, thanks for those links, CG. I have those blades NIB, which seem to be proper. Whoops!! I'm not a collector. Or am I? :~

alex2363
10-15-2011, 12:31 AM
The Tech head is the correct head with that case not the OC head.

Here is on set form 1946 with a different handle (http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1946%20(R1%20on%20blade)%20Contract%20Tech.JPG) or 1949 from Canada (http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1949%20(U1%20on%20Blade)%20Tech%20Canada.JPG).

Tom, nice info, it is right on.

mojocracker
10-15-2011, 12:34 PM
Thanks again, CG. I had one more question, if you don't mind. How do you so easily navigate to relevant links within B&B? I have trouble with search turning up way too much data.

-=mojo

missingskin
10-15-2011, 12:41 PM
Thanks again, CG. I had one more question, if you don't mind. How do you so easily navigate to relevant links within B&B? I have trouble with search turning up way too much data.

-=mojo

Hi, like a lot of people on here (and other shaving forums) my 1st stop is mr-razor.com it is a great source of info on razors and blades.
Steve

Copierguy
10-15-2011, 01:15 PM
I am not organized nor do I have a "system".
I just read and look at a lot of razor stuff and then once in a great while someone asks about something I remember.

KM-instructor
10-15-2011, 01:23 PM
I am not organized nor do I have a "system".
I just read and look at a lot of razor stuff and then once in a great while someone asks about something I remember.

Great answer, and one I can relate too.