Blade Bank and a Discovery

**Crawford Montizano** · 01-13-2010, 07:22 PM

I was about to begin my night shave and reading a thread on the blade banks over at the WIKI. I just noticed I have a blade slot in my medicine cabinet!!!! The slot is exactly the same as the one in the WIKI too.

Only took me 3 years to find it!

**Dustinl** · 01-13-2010, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Crawford Montizano

I was about to begin my night shave and reading a thread on the blade banks over at the WIKI. I just noticed I have a blade slot in my medicine cabinet!!!! The slot is exactly the same as the one in the WIKI too.

Only took me 3 years to find it!

I wish I had one. I'm going to try and find a way to put one in.

DL

**Jim1968** · 01-13-2010, 08:07 PM

I use an Altoids tin to store my used blades. When it get full I will duct tape it shut and throw it away.

**Crawford Montizano** · 01-13-2010, 08:11 PM

Here is funny story about.. what else Blade Banks:

http://lindaswindow.blogspot.com/200...or-blades.html

**Dustinl** · 01-13-2010, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Crawford Montizano

Here is funny story about.. what else Blade Banks:

http://lindaswindow.blogspot.com/200...or-blades.html

Great story!!! Thanks for posting that!

DL

**Topgumby** · 01-13-2010, 08:22 PM

I want a slot like that, and it just wouldn't be the same if I made it.

I secretly check medicine cabinets for slots....

**A_Jameson** · 01-13-2010, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Jim1968

I use an Altoids tin to store my used blades. When it get full I will duct tape it shut and throw it away.

Great idea!!! I've been wrapping mine up in toilet paper and tossing them, I like this much better!

**Topgumby** · 01-13-2010, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by A_Jameson

Great idea!!! I've been wrapping mine up in toilet paper and tossing them, I like this much better!

Yikes! A home-made blade bank is much, much better than tossing blades, wrapped or no.

**moonshine44** · 01-13-2010, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by A_Jameson

Great idea!!! I've been wrapping mine up in toilet paper and tossing them, I like this much better!

Originally Posted by Topgumby

Yikes! A home-made blade bank is much, much better than tossing blades, wrapped or no.

There was a thread a few months ago about making a blade bank from a can of chicken broth. You punch a small hole in the can, drain the broth, rinse the can out, then dremel or otherwise cut a slot in the top of the can, and voila`, instant blade bank. Then when it's full, put it in the recycle bin for metals...

**wakefieldma** · 01-14-2010, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by moonshine44

There was a thread a few months ago about making a blade bank from a can of chicken broth. You punch a small hole in the can, drain the broth, rinse the can out, then dremel or otherwise cut a slot in the top of the can, and voila`, instant blade bank. Then when it's full, put it in the recycle bin for metals...

Great idea I will have to try that!

**dpmtherrien** · 01-14-2010, 05:43 AM

Nice discovery. Now see if you can fill it up.

**norton** · 01-14-2010, 05:56 AM

Originally Posted by Jim1968

I use an Altoids tin to store my used blades. When it get full I will duct tape it shut and throw it away.

I must have several of these tins - I'll be considering doing this once my Em's place 'official' 1.00 blade bank fills up. Maybe with epoxy in leu of duct tape to seal it 'forever'.

Now, how many blades does an Altoids' Tin hold?

**WinstonSmith** · 01-14-2010, 06:35 AM

I picked up the dollar blade bank from WCS. It should last a good while and doesn't detract from the decor.

**TimeWeaver** · 01-14-2010, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by moonshine44

There was a thread a few months ago about making a blade bank from a can of chicken broth. You punch a small hole in the can, drain the broth, rinse the can out, then dremel or otherwise cut a slot in the top of the can, and voila`, instant blade bank. Then when it's full, put it in the recycle bin for metals...

I read that thread and I've been looking for broth cans ever since. Problem is that, at least in around where I live, all the broth cans from every brand have the same sort of peel off top that we used to find on the old single-serving pudding cans, and on cans of Vienna sausages.

Hmm...
Maybe I could simply expand the hole in the top of a Dr Pepper can...

**Loner16** · 01-14-2010, 08:06 AM

I got mine free with an order from Lee's..

It's pink, but that's OK... I'm secure in my masculinity!

As an added benefit, it will probably last me the rest of my life.... first, because I'm 60 already, and how much of a run can expect, and secondly, I usually find other uses for blades before I deem their lifespan over!

**Barber-Eile** · 01-14-2010, 08:09 AM

If you cabinet has a slot in it for blades... emmm... how do you get the blades back out? Does the cabinet just fill up with blades inside it's walls?

I've never heard of this so excuse the ignorance!

**Monkeydad** · 01-14-2010, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by Barber-Eile

If you cabinet has a slot in it for blades... emmm... how do you get the blades back out? Does the cabinet just fill up with blades inside it's walls?

I've never heard of this so excuse the ignorance!

That's the beauty of it, you can't and don't have to get them out.

The cabinet doesn't fill up, the inside of your wall does!

Lucky people...wish I had one.

**Bobtrumpet** · 01-14-2010, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by Barber-Eile

If you cabinet has a slot in it for blades... emmm... how do you get the blades back out? Does the cabinet just fill up with blades inside it's walls?

Yes, the wall just fills up. It would take hundreds of years before you couldn't get another blade in, though. Houses built starting in the 1970s (?) after razor carts became standard didn't have them (no slot in the medicine cabinet).

It's really fun for the guys who remodel the bathroom (or for me when I remodeled the adjacent bathroom on the other side of the wall - nice find

).

**Crawford Montizano** · 01-14-2010, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by Barber-Eile

If you cabinet has a slot in it for blades... emmm... how do you get the blades back out? Does the cabinet just fill up with blades inside it's walls?

I've never heard of this so excuse the ignorance!

The blades fall in-between the walls and between the studs. The only problem with this is when people are renovating bathrooms and find hundreds of blades that need to be removed. Like in this picture here.

More can be found here at the WIKI: