On 25-Dec-23 23:38, Sn!pe wrote:
> Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote (with apologies for FU to self):
>
>> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> On 25/12/2023 17:21, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
>>>> John Williamson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have one which uses a pair of AA cells, the throwaway types last a
>>>>> month or so
>>>>
>>>> I started out with an AA flattery type shaver, but found it got quite
>>>> "pinchy" so upgraded to a mains one for a few years, then eventually
>>>> went to wet shaving ...
>>>
>>> Like wet blades, the heads and foils have a limited life. You used to be
>>> able to buy the heads and foils as spare parts, but the throwaway
>>> society says we now have to throw the rest of the shaver away as well.
>>
>> <https://uk.braun.com/en-gb/replacement-parts-search> HTH
>
> Hmm. Having just drawn a blank there for my own shaver,
> Mazano offer lots:
>
> <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Braun-Shaver-Spares/s?k=Braun+Shaver+Spares>
>
Whenever I have looked into replacement heads or cutters for my shavers,
there seems to be a _very_ close relationship between the cost of spares
and the price of a new shaver.

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Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> On 25-Dec-23 23:38, Sn!pe wrote:
> > Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote (with apologies for FU to self):
> >
> >> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >>> On 25/12/2023 17:21, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
> >>>> John Williamson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I have one which uses a pair of AA cells, the throwaway types last a
> >>>>> month or so
> >>>>
> >>>> I started out with an AA flattery type shaver, but found it got quite
> >>>> "pinchy" so upgraded to a mains one for a few years, then eventually
> >>>> went to wet shaving ...
> >>>
> >>> Like wet blades, the heads and foils have a limited life. You used to be
> >>> able to buy the heads and foils as spare parts, but the throwaway
> >>> society says we now have to throw the rest of the shaver away as well.
> >>
> >> <https://uk.braun.com/en-gb/replacement-parts-search> HTH
> >
> > Hmm. Having just drawn a blank there for my own shaver,
> > Mazano offer lots:
> >
> > <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Braun-Shaver-Spares/s?k=Braun+Shaver+Spares>
> >
> Whenever I have looked into replacement heads or cutters for my shavers,
> there seems to be a _very_ close relationship between the cost of spares
> and the price of a new shaver.

To be fair, it's the most important part of the shaver. It's precision
made integrated foil and cutter blades. The rest of the shaver is
mostly just battery and motor.

When I buy a replacement shaver I get the cheaper version stripped
of accessories. There is room enough in the cabinet for only a few
cleaning brushes and little tubes of oil.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

On 25/12/2023 in message <JFoiN.99894$Wp_8.1752@fx17.iad> Sam Plusnet wrote:

>Whenever I have looked into replacement heads or cutters for my shavers,
>there seems to be a very close relationship between the cost of spares and
>the price of a new shaver.

They're a bit like brushes for an Oral B - keep tabs on Amazon's deals,
they appear fairly regularly.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant

Mike Fleming wrote:

> I stopped in lockdown, when I didn't have to go into the orifice

I did too, but I goove I look scruffy with a beard, so I chopped it off,
I probably tend to be stubbly several days a week now ...

On 23/12/2023 11:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Some years ago, electric shavers all were both mains and battery, ok that
> meant a slightly heavier mains unit, but little else. These days it seems if
> your battery is discharged it just stops and you plug it in, but it will
> not drive the shaver while its charging. This does not seem like progress to
> me, it looks like cost cutting. Brian
>

My favourite mains shavers were the mains only Remington's that ran at
50Hz and had a weighty chunk of metal inside the case. When they went
battery, to save power they made the mechanics lighter, and the
efficiency of cutting stubble poorer.

A decent mains only shaver is a rare thing nowadays, and if I were to
find a non-rotary beast, the insides would probably be some lightweight
junk DC motor from their battery range and a world voltage switching
power supply.

I don't do wet shaves that well, it's messy and I get cuts.

--
Adrian C

On 26/12/2023 12:24, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> On 23/12/2023 11:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
> My favourite mains shavers were the mains only Remington's that ran at
> 50Hz and had a weighty chunk of metal inside the case. When they went
> battery, to save power they made the mechanics lighter, and the
> efficiency of cutting stubble poorer.
>
Silly factoid...

The early ones used the weight and a spring to resonate at mains
frequency, which made them very efficient. I'm not sure whether they
made one type for the USA and one for the rest of the World, as for the
USA, they needed to resonate at 60 Hz, while just about everyone else
needed 50 Hz.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:

> Mike Fleming wrote:
>
> > I stopped in lockdown, when I didn't have to go into the orifice
>
> I did too, but I goove I look scruffy with a beard, so I chopped it off,
> I probably tend to be stubbly several days a week now ...

Ditto. Once a week on Saturday is frequent enough for me.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

> On 25/12/2023 in message <JFoiN.99894$Wp_8.1752@fx17.iad> Sam Plusnet wrote:
>
> >Whenever I have looked into replacement heads or cutters for my shavers,
> >there seems to be a very close relationship between the cost of spares and
> >the price of a new shaver.
>
> They're a bit like brushes for an Oral B - keep tabs on Amazon's deals,
> they appear fairly regularly.

It's classical "razor blade marketing", standard practise in retail.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

On 26-Dec-23 0:35, Sn!pe wrote:
> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>> On 25-Dec-23 23:38, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote (with apologies for FU to self):
>>>
>>>> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 25/12/2023 17:21, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
>>>>>> John Williamson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have one which uses a pair of AA cells, the throwaway types last a
>>>>>>> month or so
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I started out with an AA flattery type shaver, but found it got quite
>>>>>> "pinchy" so upgraded to a mains one for a few years, then eventually
>>>>>> went to wet shaving ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Like wet blades, the heads and foils have a limited life. You used to be
>>>>> able to buy the heads and foils as spare parts, but the throwaway
>>>>> society says we now have to throw the rest of the shaver away as well.
>>>>
>>>> <https://uk.braun.com/en-gb/replacement-parts-search> HTH
>>>
>>> Hmm. Having just drawn a blank there for my own shaver,
>>> Mazano offer lots:
>>>
>>> <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Braun-Shaver-Spares/s?k=Braun+Shaver+Spares>
>>>
>> Whenever I have looked into replacement heads or cutters for my shavers,
>> there seems to be a _very_ close relationship between the cost of spares
>> and the price of a new shaver.
>
> To be fair, it's the most important part of the shaver. It's precision
> made integrated foil and cutter blades. The rest of the shaver is
> mostly just battery and motor.
>
> When I buy a replacement shaver I get the cheaper version stripped
> of accessories. There is room enough in the cabinet for only a few
> cleaning brushes and little tubes of oil.
>
I once made a mistake in buying an expensive electric shaver (on sale at
around half price {I wonder why}) which came with some incredibly
complex (and bulky) gadget into which you dunked the shaver in a bath of
expensive cleaning... stuff, which was agitated by a little motor.
It was a lousy shaver & I carried on using my old one instead.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 24/12/2023 16:34, Andrew Marshall wrote:
> On 24/12/2023 12:42, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 12:10:10 +0000
>> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could never see the point of         razors meeself. Lot cheaper as
>>> well.
>>
>>     MTAAAW I gave up on the barberic business of shaving a very long
>> time ago.
>
> MTAAW - gave it up many hectofortnights ago.
>

I think the last time I shaved was in June 1967.

Tone

On 25/12/2023 09:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
> One thing I do notice though is that all hair in unwanted places grows more
> as you get older, to the detriment of the front hair line and the crown. Its
> as if somebody have moved the follicles while you slept and shoved them in
> elsewhere.
> Brian
>

Bought the X^6 a mobility scootererer for Christmas.

Fist gateway she aimed at she hit. Broken mudguard.

Not as bad as me though. Drove mine in reverse down the ramp out of the
new trailer, braked too soon. Scooterer rolled over backwards with me onnit!

Hotel cleaning staff ran out to pick me up out of the mud and to right
the bucking steed.

I was unhurt, but extremely embarrassed. The X^6 is still laughing about it.

She bought me a nose hair strimmer for Christmas.

Is she trying to tell me something?

<sniff>

tone

Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote in news:umhb6a$3ui2j$2@dont-email.me:

> On 24/12/2023 16:34, Andrew Marshall wrote:
>> On 24/12/2023 12:42, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 12:10:10 +0000
>>> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Could never see the point of         razors meeself. Lot
>>>> cheaper as well.
>>>
>>>     MTAAAW I gave up on the barberic business of shaving a very
>>> long time ago.
>>
>> MTAAW - gave it up many hectofortnights ago.
>>
>
> I think the last time I shaved was in June 1967.

I shave when my beard starts to itch. Quick trim with sissors then the
clippers on my rechargeable shaver to tidy up the edges.

--
Peter
-----

Yes, Minne are now mostly grey and white. Why does the ink run out on hair?.
Maybe its supplied in the same way that HP fill their toner carts on new
printers, ie less than half way.
Brian

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> On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 10:10:38 +0000
> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Gravity, innit? The follicles migrate downhill, just like everything
>> else.
>
> That sounds like a good theory - but why did the follicles on my
> legs give up ? Why did the follicles on my chin and chest stop colouring
> the
> hairs in but not the ones on top of my head in my armpits and down below.
>
> --
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> Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
> Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

I have a special set of nail clippers that works on nose hair. With regard
to buggies, I don't think your experiences are unusual when somebody gets
one. Luckily, thus far my legs are OK and I can still run up stairs, but all
the people I knew when they were young who took up sports have artificial
hips and knees now. I, being the worlds worst at any sport just sat under a
tree and kept what eyesight I had on peoples belongings.
Brian

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"Hymermut" <tone@email.com> wrote in message
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> On 25/12/2023 09:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> One thing I do notice though is that all hair in unwanted places grows
>> more
>> as you get older, to the detriment of the front hair line and the crown.
>> Its
>> as if somebody have moved the follicles while you slept and shoved them
>> in
>> elsewhere.
>> Brian
>>
>
> Bought the X^6 a mobility scootererer for Christmas.
>
> Fist gateway she aimed at she hit. Broken mudguard.
>
> Not as bad as me though. Drove mine in reverse down the ramp out of the
> new trailer, braked too soon. Scooterer rolled over backwards with me
> onnit!
>
> Hotel cleaning staff ran out to pick me up out of the mud and to right the
> bucking steed.
>
> I was unhurt, but extremely embarrassed. The X^6 is still laughing about
> it.
>
> She bought me a nose hair strimmer for Christmas.
>
> Is she trying to tell me something?
>
> <sniff>
>
> tone