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Hi all ,
I will give you some tricks to get a very long life for your rubbers.
to restore the grip (spin) of a rubber :
- clean it with some water and a drop of dishwashing liquid (like Dreft...), always use a gentle tissue to dry the water off (i use kitchen paper or toilet paper )
- buy a can of WD40 (do a Google search on this if you dont know it) and spray some of it on the rubber, wipe open with your finger on the rubber, let dry for an hour, eventually you can repeat this (the oily WD40 attacks the rubber lightly and thus restores tack/grip)
to tune your rubbers (just like speed glue) :
-buy a bottle of lamp oil (=kerosene, liquid paraffine) , you can buy this for 3€ per liter
-use a brush to put one or two layers of lamp oil on the sponge (just like when you speed glue) , let dry for a couple of hours -> you will see the rubber get a dome !! , then glue with normal glue
this will give the clic sound of speed glue and the speed and spin
BTW : the Dandoy bio booster and others are in fact 95% lamp oil/paraffine
a lot of the better players in Germany who used to speed glue do exactly this
this will pass the E-nez machine also
I also use the sticky protection sheets when i don't play (clean these sticky sheets regularly because they will become dusty and lose their protectiveness)
I play now 26 months in a row (2 to 3 times a week) with an Andro Revo Fire 1,7 mm , i restored the following worn rubbers : Donic Coppa JO Gold 1,8 mm, Tibhar Nimbus 2 mm , Andro Impulse Speed 1,8 mm (fantastic glue effect with the lamp oil boosting !)
you can even use the lamp oil as an alternative to the WD40 to get the spin back , but you have to be carefull not to use too much then as the lamp oil does attack the rubber more than the WD40 does
Try it on a worn rubber and give me some feedback, you will be happy you tried !
The companies selling rubbers will not like this post !!
So do you use any of these techniques?
I will give you some tricks to get a very long life for your rubbers.
to restore the grip (spin) of a rubber :
- clean it with some water and a drop of dishwashing liquid (like Dreft...), always use a gentle tissue to dry the water off (i use kitchen paper or toilet paper )
- buy a can of WD40 (do a Google search on this if you dont know it) and spray some of it on the rubber, wipe open with your finger on the rubber, let dry for an hour, eventually you can repeat this (the oily WD40 attacks the rubber lightly and thus restores tack/grip)
to tune your rubbers (just like speed glue) :
-buy a bottle of lamp oil (=kerosene, liquid paraffine) , you can buy this for 3€ per liter
-use a brush to put one or two layers of lamp oil on the sponge (just like when you speed glue) , let dry for a couple of hours -> you will see the rubber get a dome !! , then glue with normal glue
this will give the clic sound of speed glue and the speed and spin
BTW : the Dandoy bio booster and others are in fact 95% lamp oil/paraffine
a lot of the better players in Germany who used to speed glue do exactly this
this will pass the E-nez machine also
I also use the sticky protection sheets when i don't play (clean these sticky sheets regularly because they will become dusty and lose their protectiveness)
I play now 26 months in a row (2 to 3 times a week) with an Andro Revo Fire 1,7 mm , i restored the following worn rubbers : Donic Coppa JO Gold 1,8 mm, Tibhar Nimbus 2 mm , Andro Impulse Speed 1,8 mm (fantastic glue effect with the lamp oil boosting !)
you can even use the lamp oil as an alternative to the WD40 to get the spin back , but you have to be carefull not to use too much then as the lamp oil does attack the rubber more than the WD40 does
Try it on a worn rubber and give me some feedback, you will be happy you tried !
The companies selling rubbers will not like this post !!
So do you use any of these techniques?