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Yes, ping pong balls are celluoid. Rub one hard and one can smell the camphor.Ping pong balls?
Yes, ping pong balls are celluoid. Rub one hard and one can smell the camphor.Ping pong balls?
Can you tell from a pic if the scales are celluloid?I've had to throw away some beautiful old straight razors because the celluloid scales destroyed the blades. We always called it "gassing off", which was attributed to the material breaking down. It can really be pretty stuff, but I won't use it for that reason alone. One razor with rotten celluloid scales can ruin a whole pouch of blades in a hurry.
Take a very fine grit sandpaper to the scales. If you smell "camphor" they are celluloid without a doubt.Can you tell from a pic if the scales are celluloid?
Both are German made.
I cannot tell from a picture. But they look like it. It's possible that they are bakelite. I suppose if you could figure out about what time period they were made, that would be your best answer. Or do like he mentioned and rub them hard for a few seconds. Depending on how important the razors are to you, I could only say, better safe than sorry. There are some very talented razor smiths with websites that could rescale them for you in any natural product, or even G10. I used cow horn or G10 for all mine.Can you tell from a pic if the scales are celluloid?
Yea I love celluloid... I would plane them with wooden plane when working on some guitars, and light the shavings for fun. It really burns very well, like gasoline. Bet you could use it as propellant or something...One day I milled quite a bit of Celluloid material and left the milling machine table covered with chips.
A few days later while milling some steel some hot chips ignited the Celluloid which burst into flames.
Pretty Crazy how fast it burns. Luckily there was nothing near to catch fire.
And I'm pretty sure the fumes are bad to breath.