The Custom Plus 3 Trick

[Kojak]

There is only one type of yellow adapter and one type of black adapter. Perhaps if you take a close up picture of your adapter and Custom 3 Plus cartridge and post it here it would help to clear up this problem.

[phigg]

Will do.. when I get home

[Rob-Raz]

The two clips on the Custom Plus 3 blade clip on the outside edges of the black adaptor. Snaps right in.







Look like your adaptor Phigg?

[phigg]

The two clips on the Custom Plus 3 blade clip on the outside edges of the black adaptor. Snaps right in.







Look like your adaptor Phigg?

Whoa!!!  It looks NOTHING like my adapter, except for the color! 

Thanks Rob, I think that clears it up. Something weird about my head blade then.. maybe.
I did note that my black and yellow adapters (to me) looked identical, save color. 
Do HB 2 blade cartridges (Atra type) and HB 3 blade cartridges use the same adapter?
Which one does a HB sport come with?  I might be stopping by my local Walgreens after work today.

[The Noggin]

The Sport comes with the yellow and the black.
However, the S4 Shadow comes with black adapters with the shape of the yellow ones, to match the color of the razor, I guess.
HB2 and HB3 packs I bought both had yellow adapters in it.

[phigg]

Aha!   So HB does make a yellow adapter that is really a black adapter... errrr.. or vice versa...     
The 4 pack of triple blade HB carts I bought had a yellow adapter, but it definitely doesn't work on the Gilette Custom Plus3..  and neither does the black adapter that came with my original HB, which actually looks exactly like my yellow adapter.. weird!!

I'm gettin' me a Sport today.   My HB is an original, and quite old at that.  I bought it like 3 years ago, (since I wanted to shave even back then) but it sat in my bureau drawer until just last month. I wonder if they changed anything in those years...?

[The Noggin]

Left to right:
Black and yellow from my Sport (yellow also in double/triple blades packs), black from S4 Shadow

The left is the one that fits the Custom Plus 3 as seen in the pictures provided by Rob-Raz.

P.S. Yes I AM a bad photographer 

[phigg]

Left to right:
Black and yellow from my Sport (yellow also in double/triple blades packs), black from S4 Shadow

The left is the one that fits the Custom Plus 3 as seen in the pictures provided by Rob-Raz.

P.S. Yes I AM a bad photographer 

No you're not, this illustrates the issue beautifully!  I have both the middle and righmost adapters. (Which as anyone can see -upon closer inspection-  are really the same adapter) I just assumed there was some subtle difference between them I didn't pick up on immediately when looking at mine. 
I don't have the black one on the left, however, which is what I'd need.

[Rob-Raz]

Yep....I have the two on the left, both came with the Sport.

[Kojak]

Ok, so I was wrong there are two types of black adapters, my bad.

[phigg]

Love this forum, we can learn something new almost everyday!  I know I do.

I picked up a Sport last night and got the "right" adapter, it works simply enough now, of course. Yay!

By the way, now that I have one, I'm not sure I like the Sport as much as the original HB;  it's bigger and has a longer "wheelbase", which means it doesn't follow the various contours, valleys, ridges, etc.. of my noggin quite as well as the original.  I really have quite the hilly landscape, apparently.
I wish HB made a shorter razor that flexed or was hinged in the center (with a bit of resistance), think "wasp" or "ant".. the way the thorax connects to the abdomen.. that would rock. It might demand a little more in the way of technique, but overall it'd be more forgiving of "interesting" terrain.
I'm going off topic though.. I'll post this bit elsewhere here, maybe I can get someone from HB interested.

[BaldWriterBob]

Tried this trick. Works like a charm. Thanks.

[lordmage]

i get about 3 scrapes from these blades. mind you that is my average with all less then 5 bladers i use regardless of how dry i keep them after wards or how hot the water is i use during.

[Malik]

I tried it. It works great. Thanks!

[Gambrinus]

I went to Wal-Mart to get some CP3's and they don't have them anymore    I had to get the Sensor 3's