Recent content by shypre

I just tried restoring another old sheet, Tenergy 19, with the booster oil method. I put a bit more on it this time and waited longer before wiping it off, and it gained a bit of tackiness! Here's a video showing the level of tackiness: . It's not much, but similar to european hybrid rubbers it...

There's things like this on Aliexpress that claim to add tackiness. I tried one at some point and it just seems to be a spray that contains small amounts of glue, so that once it dries the surface is a bit sticky. It quickly goes away though. I didn't like it.

I just tried this method on a dead sheet of Tenergy 80, and it works for that too! In fact the topsheet was beyond dead, when holding a ball and dragging it across the topsheet, it slides, not rolls. Well I tried first various different cleaners on it, and even a Chinese clone of the Falco Life...

The huge reverse dome is already a bad sign, this means that the rubber was heavily factory boosted and it evaporated while in warehouse storage. One other thing I forgot to mention was that I kept the rubber trimmings around after boosting it flat, and it shrunk/reverse domed so hard again it...

I tried Battle 3 Purple in 41.5 hardness a few weeks ago. Don't get it, it's terrible. When I opened the packaging there was a huge reverse dome, it took 2 layers of booster to even make it flat. I put it on a thick 5-ply penhold and played with it for an hour. It was pretty fast but could not...

First forum post and it's about me inventing topsheet boosting... Recently I bought a used racket that came with a fairly worn Hurricane 3 commercial. It was not tacky at all, couldn't pick up a ball even 1cm and when trying to loop backspin it felt like it was not gripping 100%. I've had this...

I bought the Butterfly L-12 on Taobao and they look exactly like the Lezoline Rifones. The other L models also look the same as the Butterfly Lezoline lineup from pictures.