Most likely the rubber has been boosted and this is the side-effect of boosting rubber.
Doesnt boosting rubber make the rubber curl outward rather than inward?
I dont have any booster, so I tried layering on some baby oil to try to reverse the curl. I dont know if all the back and forth bending will damage the rubber.Â
Johnson baby oil will have the same effect as any other booster. Apply it thinly and let it completely dry for about 10 hours you might have to do this 3 times to get the rubber flat
I tried the baby oil on a couple rubbers just to see what happens. I think I put too much on a H2 sheet and it expanded about an inch beyond the end of the blade head. Also, it seems like the rubber became very soft and supple, like tortilla or naan bread. So rather than tense up, it seems to be limp? Is that normal effect of baby oil?
On the green 729 sponge, it did uncurl a little bit, but not all the way back. I think I put about 3 layers on it.
Im not so desperate to save the old rubber, Im just interested in learning more about the rubbers themselves. What makes rubbers fast or spinny, how they react to oil, why they curl, how they play, etc.
😍 nothing wrong with a bit of experimenting and learning.
Different rubbers react differently to treatments, even same rubbers of same brand and same series.
For example : I unpacked a brand new Hurricane 3 and it was not quite flat but had a slight dome , the playing side was high.
I thought , just a light application of seamoon would ""straighten this out = nothing happened
So i applied another light dose and the bloody rubber curled into a tube 😁 It is stretching itself back slowly but now, 48 hours later it still has not recovered completely.
Just keep playing, what have you got to loose ????😁
