Blade bank nearly full
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Paper Plane
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chazt
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Yes, it was common but not pervasive. My house was built in 1950. We bought from the original owner; the bathrooms looked as when the house was built. It didn’t have the slot in the wall. When we had the bathrooms renovated, the contractor told us about a previous job where he opened a wall and unexpectedly found “pounds and pounds” of used blades between the studs that took him by surprise. Apparently someone had replaced the original medicine cabinet with a new one which didn’t have a blade slot. He said that since then he always wears heavy duty gloves when opening up the wall behind a bathroom sink. In retrospect I‘m sorry I didn’t have the foresight to ask the contractor to put a slot in the wall when he was doing our job.
Vacumatic
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I have seen this in UK houses, I am assuming that the houses were built between the wars. the blades fell into the cavity wall.
Trying to think of a downside if the blades are stainless steel and probably a better practice than just putting the blade into a dustbin. as might have been the practice 70+ years ago.
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chazt
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This is on Maggard’s website.
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Maggard Razors Blade Bank Used Blades Lifetime Wall Slot
Years ago, medicine cabinets would have a slot cut in the back of them for used razor blades. You'd knock a hole in your wall, install your medicine cabinet over top it, and drop blades into your walls for years and years. This is a simple, efficient solution to the sometimes annoying problem of...
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You just did not want to be the poor b-tard that was doing the renovation and had to deal with all those years of saved up blades.
Bob
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It's a PIF that nobody wants to be a part of!
Best to get the full container of what should be called medical waste (after all, blades are 'sharps' that have been in contact with skin and blood) to a medical practice or hospital. If you ask nicely and explain it's a once in a decade event, I'm sure they'll oblige.
Some of the photos I have seen show a jumbled pile of blades between the wall studs as there was no container in the wall to catch them.
Bob
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Apologies, Bob. I meant that bottles of blades should be treated as sharps. The wall cavity surprise finds are not nearly as easily managed. Cut-proof gloves, and a sound disposition would certainly be prerequisites for those cases!
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Good thinking, @Paper Plane - a magnet inside a stout bag would be good. That way, you can pull the bag away from the magnet, leaving the blades inside the bag without having to pull them off the magnet.
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I'm using a conventional blade bank (Feather Blade Disposal Case) which received its first used blade on Friday 8 March, 2019. That means it's coming up for 5 years and 4 months of continual use and there's still room for a few more.
I shave most days so for a very modest outlay on the blade disposal case I think I've had my money's worth out of it!
If anyone's remotely interested, the weight of 5 years + worth of used blades is 197g (226g minus the 29g weight of the disposal case.) How do I know how much an empty blade disposal case weighs? Simple, I bought two in 2019 and just weighed the empty one.
Let's hope I'm still around to bore you all senseless with another update in 5 + years time.
I shave most days so for a very modest outlay on the blade disposal case I think I've had my money's worth out of it!
If anyone's remotely interested, the weight of 5 years + worth of used blades is 197g (226g minus the 29g weight of the disposal case.) How do I know how much an empty blade disposal case weighs? Simple, I bought two in 2019 and just weighed the empty one.
Let's hope I'm still around to bore you all senseless with another update in 5 + years time.
chazt
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Still room for another year 
Upon reflection, it seems my blade consumption has dropped substantially. In the last year I shaved an average of 3-4 days a week compared to 5-6 shaves per week in previous years. By rough guesstimate I went through perhaps (Edited upon review) ~8 GEMs, no more than 3 injector blades, and maybe only 50 or so double edge blades.
Upon reflection, it seems my blade consumption has dropped substantially. In the last year I shaved an average of 3-4 days a week compared to 5-6 shaves per week in previous years. By rough guesstimate I went through perhaps (Edited upon review) ~8 GEMs, no more than 3 injector blades, and maybe only 50 or so double edge blades.
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Vacumatic
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There are some home improvement TV programs, they pull out a bathroom wall from a very old house and find a huge number of old DE blades behind the wall which remain long after the disposal slot in the tiling has been replaced.
Presumably from a time when cut throat shaving was in decline and DE blades were the great new thing.
Presumably from a time when cut throat shaving was in decline and DE blades were the great new thing.
Estariol
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That's asolid amount of steel for a nice damascus bladed knife from a good blacksmith... That's what i would do if i could afford it...