Glue usage reduction 😁

[riemsesy]

Does anyone else glue only there where the blade will attach to the rubber?

 

[lodro]

Does anyone else glue only there where the blade will attach to the rubber?
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Hell no ! 🤣🤣🤣
why make life more difficult ???

 

[riemsesy]

Hell no ! 🤣🤣🤣
why make life more difficult ???

you know how difficult 't is to glue exactly to the edge :-D

 

[lodro]

you know how difficult 't is to glue exactly to the edge :-D

Yes I do but then I also know that I DON'T have to be very fussy when it gets close to the edges

 

[Gekko]

The closest I've gone is missing a corner where I'm holding onto the rubber haha

 

[Doum]

It leave more glue in the tube to turn bad. Better to use it fast so you ca buy fresh glue.

 

[TensorBackhand]

Does anyone else glue only there where the blade will attach to the rubber?
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Yes, of course. Why would you glue outside

 

[riemsesy]

It leave more glue in the tube to turn bad. Better to use it fast so you ca buy fresh glue.

Oh, no chance with me that the glue goes bad.

 

[lodro]

Does anyone else glue only there where the blade will attach to the rubber?
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i can see that the glue is very unevenly spread and that is not good. You should apply the glue from the bottom to the top , not in circles

 

[SFF_lib]

Just use VOC glue if you're not playing official tournaments. Far cheaper per ml, less sponge wastage, dry more quickly and better adhesion.

 

[enoxzr]

For new sheets of rubber, I just put glue on the full sheet.
Marking the sheet, only glueing the marked area and then having to line it up is not worth the hassle for that extra drop of glue I might use just glueing the full sheet.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

This method likely started with Jpen blades, which is much easier to line up.
When I was a kid, I seen people actually cut out the sheet, then glue, then put on, and it was perfect.

if one wants to save some glue, at least go wider over the line.
you want the sponge to absorb enough glue, you don't want the line/edge to be under glued

I know some people who with glue the whole sheet, but leave the areas "outside" the line, pretty rough, or with spot missing. So same theory, but still goes over the line by quite a bit.

For most other, the glue applicator sponge is so wet, you can go over without adding more glue (since the glue is on the applicator already)

 

[jammmail]

Slightly off topic - but made sense to add to this disscussion rather than start a new one. I recently rewatched the Timo gluing vid, and noticed some bits i didnt register before.

Hes quite generous with how much glue goes on. But equally says he waited 2hrs before attaching. Does anyone wait that long?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Slightly off topic - but made sense to add to this disscussion rather than start a new one. I recently rewatched the Timo gluing vid, and noticed some bits i didnt register before.

Hes quite generous with how much glue goes on. But equally says he waited 2hrs before attaching. Does anyone wait that long?

interesting disucssion

many people use cold air hairdryer to dry, so there is no wait at all (or using a fan to blow on)
then you get some that really air dry it for a long

I believe there are pros and cons on both ends, and I can't really confirm what is better and I have glued thousands of rubbers between both methods

I have also let 1st layer air dry, go and do my thing
come back put 2nd layer and hairdryer dry.
the bond there I think is good.

A lot of pros use hairdryer - but then again, they reglue every few weeks (maybe even weekly)

 

[cytivrat]

Hes quite generous with how much glue goes on. But equally says he waited 2hrs before attaching. Does anyone wait that long?

I have a cat, a chinchilla and 2 children at home, I cannot leave my rubber and blade on a table for that long, something will definitely happen And I don't see any reason why I should do this. 10-15 minutes is usually enough, probably I'm not that paranoic or maybe I just don't feel my racket well enough to tell the difference between 15 minutes drying and 2 hours drying

 

[jammmail]

I have a cat, a chinchilla and 2 children at home, I cannot leave my rubber and blade on a table for that long, something will definitely happen And I don't see any reason why I should do this. 10-15 minutes is usually enough, probably I'm not that paranoic or maybe I just don't feel my racket well enough to tell the difference between 15 minutes drying and 2 hours drying

Haha I know what you mean - I always wait for my little one to go to bed before gluing as he always wants to 'help'
The time is really intriguing as its so long- is there a too long point? Also i find interesting in Dima's glue video (pretty similar approach) he doesn't use a hairdryer and says it changes the properties and waits for it to dry naturally. Both also use scissors and leave a little extra from the blade and use edge tape on one side.

 

[Sticky]

Does anyone else glue only there where the blade will attach to the rubber?
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Don't stop there. Cut your rubber into 4 quarters and just glue a quarter in the sweet spot. Less than half the amount of glue needed and rubber lasts 4 times more!

 

[riemsesy]

I can cut out four circles to cover the sweet spot. Now that’s glue reduction! 😁

 

[riemsesy]

Slightly off topic - but made sense to add to this disscussion rather than start a new one. I recently rewatched the Timo gluing vid, and noticed some bits i didnt register before.

Hes quite generous with how much glue goes on. But equally says he waited 2hrs before attaching. Does anyone wait that long?

Noooo. He knows playing table tennis but he isn’t a glue master!! Don’t believe him. You have to be a ttd member recognized as ej-victim.

But seriously. There is no sense in waiting that long. When the glue is dry it will attach the two parts together. My daughter (chemist student) explained it as chemical
Velcro.

 

[dingyibvs]

A lot of pros just use a hairdryer. Then you've got extremists like He Zhuojia who puts like 5 layers of glue on her rubber and air dries all of them.