This action is like a Ping Pong ball going back and forth, grab Ur popcorn, it's heating up. Fire it up moar or put it to rest, it's all good either way.
Throw Der_Echte under the bus anyone who wants. I put a little oil on the sponge of an H3 NEO a couple years back and it softened the sponge a little to my liking just fine. Was it a fast rubber? NO. Just a control rubber I made LESS tacky by wiping it constantly with sweat so it plays more Euro/Japanese. I use it on a spare bat on BH when I am in between main blades (they all seem to get too much battle damage !)
My normal BH rubber is un tuned XP 2008 S. Power. My FH rubber is either Aurus untuned or Evo series untuned.
Sometimes in summer, H3 NEO is a decent FH rubber substitute as it does much better than other rubbers in humid conditions, I mean extreme humid summer. T05 is worthless in those conditions.
I tried regular commercial orange sponged H3 (#19 sponge?) and it was so slow I wanted to assign a negative value to it. I reglued it and it improved to extremely slow. I don't think even 3-4 layers of lamp oil would save that rubber, it seemed to need some seriously strong tuner and I wasn't going to spend that money just to find out, I wasn't THAT bored. I simply moved it to a $3 blade I bought in Wallmart and gave it to a new player at the rec center. One of my suppliers always tosses in a freebie rubber or something that I either test and pass on or put on a blade I give to Soldiers. Cole helps out the military this way and with his help, I can help others.
We ask ourselves what is intent of LAW and letter of LAW and if the LAW is really a LAW or rightfully one that we obey like sheep. many things in our lives have LAWS made by governments that serve others' interests and not ours, but we are taught to follow along like quiet sheep and not complain or make a fuss, even if people die over the rules a govt makes and some others greatly financially profit (like say GMO pesticide laced products that are killing us made legal in US everywhere and no law requiring them to be properly labled so we can avoid them)
If anyone want so to be upset at someone who tunes a $20 rubber to make it 80% the performance of a $80 tenergy untuned and make a big deal about it, then go right ahead, I for one am not going to get in your way not in the way of an opponent who I KNOW tuned, cause I saw him tune his $20 rubber and talk about it on the forum. His tuning isn't going to help his footwork when I give him a fast underspin to his crossover that he fails to step-around in time and is comically off balance as he misses the shot. Instead of Cho, I would shout Falco Long ! or something.
I am not going to complain about the "factory" being able to tune a certain rubber for pennies extra cost, package it as "extra super duper special", then turn around and sell it for more dollars or Euros, yet if WE AMATURE players do the exact same thing to the exact same cheap rubber, we are cheaters and evil scum.
I am not going to complain about someone having the ability to "buy" his way to a superior performing rubber over a TT player with less money or willingness to spend on rubber and get a "lesser" performing rubber that is not tuned at factory.
If a poor player wants a rich man's rubber, he can sacrifice his meals or something or get good enough at TT to get sponsored and not worry about it.
You wont see me complaining about any of this, maybe just see me point out irony and hypocrisy of governments and IITF mandated & blindly followed by Natl assn, etc.
Anyone who wants to tune by me can do it all day long and sing along while they do it. Anyone who wants to call a tuner a cheater in public can do so all day long fine by me.
