Shrink free transfer of rubbers ?

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So I have this almost new Dignics pair cut perfectly to my current blade with standard butterfly head shape and I want to transfer them to another butterfly blade that also has the standard shape.
It really grinds my gears to have rubbers that are smaller then the head of the blade and I don’t want to boost some almost new expensive rubbers.
Therefore I thought of the following methods of transfer, that probably won’t work:
1. Stick one of the stickier protection films (any suggestion which?) on the rubber before peeling it and hopefully this will prevent it from shrinking when being transferred;
2. Add glue to the new blade and then try to slowly add the rubber to it WHILE peeling it from the old blade (without adding new glue to the rubbers)
Any other more or less wacky suggestions to my nitpicky dilemma?
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Shrinking is kinda a paper monster, Umpire is instructed to allow small srinkage on rubber, in the case of no more 2 мм margin gap.
 
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You can start to apply the rubber at the tip of the blade, if the rubber is shorter the gap will be at the handle.

You can slightly stretch the side of the rubber to make it fit the blade if needed.

You should be able to achieve a good result. Use edge tape to hide any imperfections.
 
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I'd use some booster. It wont make the rubber that different. Better than a too small rubber that will act a bit different because of the shrinkage.
Yep ! It is one of the reasons why i have a bottle of the good olde speed glue in the larder. Stretch it with the speed glue, then glue it on to the blade . The effect of the speed glue wears of within a day but of course the rubber can now not shrink back anymore because it is glued on to the blade.
 
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Yep ! It is one of the reasons why i have a bottle of the good olde speed glue in the larder. Stretch it with the speed glue, then glue it on to the blade . The effect of the speed glue wears of within a day but of course the rubber can now not shrink back anymore because it is glued on to the blade.
Won’t that permanently alter the characteristics of the rubber?
 
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Won’t that permanently alter the characteristics of the rubber?
I would guess you wouldn't be able to tell the difference if you speed glue it once. As far as I know the speed/spin increase always will disappear quite fast. Regular usage of that kind of glue on the same rubber (as it was done in that era) should lead to a permanent softening of the rubber.
 
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Good news everyone ! (Yes, it’s a Futurama referance) The Dignics rubbers didn’t shrink at all! They fit perfectly with or without glue on. They were used around a month and were initially glued by Butterfy Europe. Now the problem is I can’t align them perfectly on the new blade (although the surface is identical to the previous one). Any suggestions?
 
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Good news everyone ! (Yes, it’s a Futurama referance) The Dignics rubbers didn’t shrink at all! They fit perfectly with or without glue on. They were used around a month and were initially glued by Butterfy Europe. Now the problem is I can’t align them perfectly on the new blade (although the surface is identical to the previous one). Any suggestions?
I do have some tricks that i use that involve temp plates made from wax paper but the simplest way might be to just quickly add glue to blade and rubber and fit together wet.
 
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Good news everyone ! (Yes, it’s a Futurama referance) The Dignics rubbers didn’t shrink at all! They fit perfectly with or without glue on. They were used around a month and were initially glued by Butterfy Europe. Now the problem is I can’t align them perfectly on the new blade (although the surface is identical to the previous one). Any suggestions?
This is gonna be hard to explain in words but what I do is align the rubber on the blade and with a thin marker, draw lines on rubber AND blade edge at 7, 8 and 4, 5 o clock. Maybe 6 & 9 also.
Then, once glue is applied, with the rubber slightly curled back in your hand (ie: sponge stretched, rubber concave), when positioning the bottom of the rubber straight along the the top of the handle you can use these marks to ensure the rubber is aligning properly and carefully roll from bottom to top, the rest should line up straight also.
Takes a bit of dexterity starting with both hands holding the rubber then switching to one hand and holding and one rolling. Practice a few times without glue and you'll know exactly what you need to do.
I could demo it quicker than you can read all of this but I hope you get my meaning.
It has worked well for me in the past when blades are exactly the same size.
When rubber is a bit smaller than blade I start at 12, 11, 1, then 10 & 2 o clock and roll down, leaving a gap between the straight edge of the rubber and the handle.
It's anal as heck and takes a bit of time but it works.
Every other time I ended up glueing on crooked!! 😂 Which drive me nuts 😡😛
 
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