Do you boost your ESN rubber after factory tuning wears off?

After your ESN factory boosting wears off, do you boost your ESN rubber to try to re-claim the original performance?

How close does it get the rubber back to the original performance?

https://web.archive.org/web/20180506...?productcode=2

Messy job, indeed

Originally Posted by igorponger

https://web.archive.org/web/20180506...?productcode=2

Messy job, indeed

Messy ????
Not really ! A bit time consuming yes, but the only messy part really is the washing of the applicator sponge and that takes about 2 minutes tops

https://web.archive.org/web/20180506...?productcode=2

Messy job, indeed

I'm sure it plays very fine, but I'm just curious about what the effect of re-tuning ESN rubbers is. Who has tried re-tuning ESN rubber, and what is the result?

Originally Posted by igorponger

https://web.archive.org/web/20180506...?productcode=2

Messy job, indeed

Is this article implying that most of the China Super League players boost both their FH Chinese rubber as well as their ESN/BTY backhand rubber?

Originally Posted by igorponger

https://web.archive.org/web/20180506...?productcode=2

Messy job, indeed

that is a birthday cake you twat 😂

I certainly can play with ESN after the factory booster is gone, but I really hate the fact that I buy a rubber for what it is and after three weeks it turns into something different. Typical example is the MX-P. Reboosting doesn't bring back the initial performance although the top looks almost intacted

Originally Posted by Kolev

I certainly can play with ESN after the factory booster is gone, but I really hate the fact that I buy a rubber for what it is and after three weeks it turns into something different. Typical example is the MX-P. Reboosting doesn't bring back the initial performance although the top looks almost intacted

How much do you think does reboosting bring back? If new is 100, and after boosting is gone, is it a 80? If you reboost it, how close to the original is it?

I would say 80%. To be able to compare it to the original, I must have an original on the other side. At the very end the rubber is playable but it isn't what it was..🥴

Surely it's just soy sauce for the... erm... cake?🙄

Originally Posted by Tony's Table Tennis

I don't think it will be anywhere close to 80%
just boosting it to fit the bat again is almost difficult lol

boosting the sponge might give you the bounce, but the top sheet after 30 hours of hard hitting a week, or 120 hours a month, would be dead.
no booster will bring it back.

It will be okay for primary school kids though

That's similar to what I experienced with a couple of rubbers (V>11, BlueStorm Z2, Vega Pro). First the sponge fails, than boosted it to get the bounciness/trajectory somewhat back and not long after that the topsheet fails/isn't grippy enough for my play. Two to three month at most when I had time to train 10-12 hours per week. The BlueStorm Z2 needed booster and old-school VOC rubber cement to bring it back to its original size...

Does anybody boost the brand new esn rubber? The linked article seems to suggest that.

I use ESN rubber since 2010, after I quit using Tenergy 05 and since then, I boost my brand new rubbers and use for 2-3 months and change..

If I would compete, change in 2 months
If is only for training I can squeeze it for 3 months.

Booster: only one layer of TRF or 360TT (brazilian brand). Not messy or whatever.. 12 years doing this and things got easy..

The most important thing on ESN rubbers is not overboost them. They are already very factory boosted.. so, less booster is better, IMO.

PS: I use 50º rubbers. I would not boost 47,5 or softer models.