SHORT, BUT BUSY
LIFE OF SAFETY RAZOR BLADE SPEED OVER FACE OF 30 M.P.H Did you know that when the average man shaves, his razo travels across his face ai thf speed of nearly 30 miles an hour and that he may cut through proximately 25,000 hairs ? Details or this kind in the lilt * a safety razor blade are given in TH Engineer” by Mr. J. Ferdinand K»» ser. He says that 25,000 hairs together would occupy about * square centimetres (about 2-5 8Q- iO “quite a n.ce little bunch." He adds The edge of a good blade does nd on an average give more then 10 de* shaves, and hence its useful cottin life is only 50 seconds. The rat® * which a razor traverses the f»c e * 20ft. to 40ft. a seconn. The total time during which . edge is cutting through hairs in shave is five seconds. A blade which will r.o longer sn» one man may work quite with another man with beam different texture. Mr. „ carded some blades after la * 4 but they lasted a man with a &' beard at least another 50 limes. His advice to preserve the edge to keep the blade in an anti-corn* liqtiid, instead of wiping it- T ’ stated to double the life of the
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 12
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212SHORT, BUT BUSY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 12
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