Best AA-powered shaver?

[paulr]

There seems to be three kinds of electric shavers:

1. AC-powered, including some nice ones, but you have to be near a working outlet to use it, you have this cord flopping around etc.

2. Cordless, powered by internal rechargeable nicad battery that's not user-replaceable (except sometimes by taking the shaver apart, ordering tabbed replacement cells from somewhere, and soldering them into the shaver). Most really nice shavers are like this, which is unfortunate. The cells crap out after a while and most people just buy an expensive new shaver when that happens. Also, many of these don't work at all (even on AC power) unless the internal cells are charged. So if it poops out while you're halfway through shaving, you're stuck in the house til the shaver charges unless you want to go to work with a day's stubble on just one side of your face!

3. AA-powered. This is what I really want, so I can replace the cells easily, use alkalines or whatever. But unfortunately all the AA-powered shavers I've been able to find have been pretty crappy.

So: Anyone know of a good AA-powered shaver?

Thanks.

 

[TOB9595]

A bunch of years ago my Lady got me a Braun AA shaver. I initially scoffed at it but I quickly became quite a fan of it.
It became my fav shaver till I got the Panasonic cordless wet/dry.
I don't know if they still make it. It was maybe 5 years ago.
I think I'll look for the Braun...I have it herer,,,somewhere /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Tom

 

[paulr]

There's a cheap Braun AA that's pretty awful (I have one). I hope you're not thinking of that one. I'd like a fairly fancy one, with multiple foils, pop-up trimmer, and all that stuff. Know of anything like that?

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

panasonic 2 aa shaver

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[paulr]

Looks nicer than what I've seen before! Better still would be one with a trimmer between the two foils, like the better rechargeable shavers have. But it's a start.

I'm looking for a shaver because the non-replaceable NiMH cell in my Braun is crapping out and I'm not sure if I can even take the thing apart to replace the cell (it has some kind of one-way plastic screw). Maybe I'll just get an AC-powered shaver instead. I guess I can deal with the cord.