Just realized most barbers don't check their clipper blades for heat damage

I was swapping blades on my Wahl clippers last week. Noticed a tiny blue spot on the bottom blade. That's heat discoloration from running too long without oil. I've seen 3 other barbers at my shop in Austin do the same thing. They wonder why their cuts get rough after 6 months. Has anyone else caught this on their own gear?

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david12316d ago

Whoa, you know what, I used to blow this off too. I thought a little blue mark was no big deal and just kept cutting. Then I actually checked one of my old blades with a temp gun after a long day, it was reading 155F and the blade alignment was totally off. That heat really does warp things fast. How often do you oil yours now to keep it from getting that hot?

sanchez.sean17d ago

Check how fast that discoloration showed up relative to how many cuts you ran through. My own pair of Andis Masters got a similar blue spot after about 200 cuts with zero oiling. That's a solid 8-10 hours of straight buzzing. Did you happen to measure the blade temperature right when you noticed it? I use one of those infrared gun thermometers on mine sometimes, and anything above 140F starts to mess with the blade alignment pretty fast. If your guys are hitting that regularly without stopping to cool down, they're basically cooking their own gear to death.