Hair clipper teardown: comparing changes in design after 50 years

The one I was just replacing was a consumer grade, corded Wahl beard trimmer. Its nearly identical to the ones branded Con-Air, Remington, and other brands. I assume they’re the same unit but white labeled for different brands, and assume they’re all manufactured either by Wahl (cause that’s pretty much all those guys make) or some anonymous 3rd party (because that’s how these things tend to work).

It did a better job than most cordless trimmers. And lasted far longer. 3 years instead of one. It still works, but was leaving me patchy, and took so many strokes to do its job irritation became an issue. It also didn’t suffer from the problem I run into with most “beard trimmers”, that they’ll cut you if used bare without a “stubble guard” clipped on. I replaced it with a Wahl Peanut. Which is the only set of clippers I’m aware of with a cult following. Its much better than the old beard trimmer (and any other unit I’ve used). Its also far smaller. About as wide as a standard candy bar, but shorter. With a massive industrial grade cord shitting out the back. The only short coming I’ve noticed is it ships with combs made for cutting hair rather than beards, so the longer standard set. But I am unbearded right now. And use the thing bare to cut down the stubble a couple times a week. And a shorter set of combs appropriate for beard use is available separately for when I give up and grow the beard back.