Upgrading Palio rubber to Dignics.

igorponger · Mar 19, 2021

ХИМИЯ ЦАРИЦА НАУК.

Some useful hints on upgrading Palio rubber (10 USD) to Dignics (90 USD).
According to our in-lab testings any drying oil should do for such a trick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drying_oil

CHEAP OILY STUFF WORTH OF TRYING.
100% Pure Tung Oil should do the trick perfectly well. It did caused porous sponge material to harden by 5-10 Shore degrees after a few applicatons.
Unlike all the mineral oils (those used as a rubber booster) the tung's is drying AS SOON AS in a few hours as a result of natural polimeriszation of oil inner molecular chains in open air.
Woodworking shops have a vast selection of tung oil.

Be happy.

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thomas.pong · Mar 19, 2021

You have a lab?

Which Palio rubber did you use?

You also don't explain how you applied it... One thin layer on the sponge and that's it, or more? How many hours did you let it dry?

Even if the sponge is hardened, how's the Palio's topsheet supposed to match Dignics?

zeio · Mar 19, 2021

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...rs!!-We-did-it&p=337168&viewfull=1#post337168

Music&Ping · Mar 19, 2021

Australia does not recommend using tung oil for health concerns: it may cause allergies such as lung and skin disease, therefore some experts say it should be used with gloves.

Now you'll probably tell me "some woods can cause allergies when being processed".. yeah, sure, but it seems that tung oil is causing far more severe reactions.

Music&Ping · Mar 19, 2021

thomas.pong said:
Even if the sponge is hardened, how's the Palio's topsheet supposed to match Dignics?

and once again we've got the perfect example of the clickbait title promising to get a 3 000 bucks rubber for the price of a 3 bucks one.

Is he going to tell us all "try or don't comment" too ?

thomas.pong · Mar 19, 2021

Music&Ping;342073 said:
and once again we've got the perfect example of the clickbait title promising to get a 3 000 bucks rubber for the price of a 3 bucks one.

Is he going to tell us all "try or don't comment" too ?

Yea, this is a bit scary, because they are health concerns with tung oil... Also, once supposedly hardened in your rubber, I highly suspect that it would damage your blade or at least change its characteristics, making it harder and stiff too.

This claim that making your rubber harder would make it better is pretty hilarious aside from that. It might make it harder, but it's not going to magically transform it into Dignics. If you want a hard rubber, there are plenty good cheap ones out there, H3 included. And you have better chances of turning that into Dignics by boosting it! (I know you're going to love me for this one!). 😁

Music&Ping · Mar 19, 2021

It's possible to get "closed" to an ESN or BTY kind of tensor/spring sponge rubber (cos'... its the same philosophy behind both processes: stretching a rubber + more air in the sponge = speed glue effect), there are even some people measuring the "tensor effect" on boosted chinese rubbers, cos' it's the same philosophy: getting closed to an ESN/BTY sponge, but with a tackier topsheet and a harder sponge.

But there are too much variables to take in consideration of course: will you get the same sound as Lemmy Kilmister just by pluging a cheap bass into a JCM Marshall guitar amp with all knobs pushed to 11 ? is a Fender jazz bass good for metal ? (oh dear... so much dumb questions like these ones are flooding music forums too !!! hahaha)

It will never get old for sure...

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