What are your top annoyances about assembling your own table tennis bats?

[impluse101]

Definitely reglueing the rubber when it's already cut. Aligning everything is pain, and even more painful if I end up not perfectly aligning it and it ends up being bit more to the side, resulting in edge of rubber sticking out on one side and not covering other side completely. I once ended up reglueing rubber 4 times because of this, in a single day, that is

Same. More difficult for me to remove old glue from esn rubbers, chinese rubber is easier. and after a bit of shrinkage from esn - that alignment psshh

 

[Der_Echte]

I cannot with conscience believe this thread actually was legit started and lasted this long.

Anyone can figure this simple stuff out on their own with only a tiny effort and research.

 

[riemsesy]

What is the Problem?
It's in general talk subforum..

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Cybershape rubbers being different from regular rubbers to the point you can't easily switch them. Of course you kind of can but you know what I mean...

imagine shrinkage on cybershape
need to boost precisely, haha

 

[Lazer]

Can I apply to be your best friend.
If you can make em dark and strong, I want to apply to be your best friend forever ( BFF ).

Sure, all the way upto 12% depending on the yeast. But 5-6% yields the best result.
I can make 'em pitch black if You want, so black You s--t coal

Cheers
L-zr

 

[The_TT_Bat_Guy]

I cannot with conscience believe this thread actually was legit started and lasted this long.

Anyone can figure this simple stuff out on their own with only a tiny effort and research.

I wanna see if it's worth investing time etc into solving the key annoyances. I know many of these already and wanted to validate my assumptions 😁

 

[Der_Echte]

@The_TT_Bat_Guy ,

OK, you can be right in that even a little small easy thing to someone not well versed in the doing of it can view it as a mountain of a challenge.

I also can accept complaining about the process... it is almost like Patriotic Speech.

Complaining about things is so natural and common that it is practically a protected right.

I say that as one who is a professional complainer and supervised many complainers and used the type and frequency of complaining as a gage to know if the operation and work environment were going right enough.

 

[Kopp]

Glueing shrank rubber to the blade. Usually leaves space at the bottom and edges. Hate it

Apply a thin layer of booster then wait until it expand, or stretching the rubber while attaching to the blade may solve this this problem.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

i tried a few times to assemble my TT bat myself but after seeing the result i decided it was better to leave it to specialists

 

[Gozo Aruna]

i tried a few times to assemble my TT bat myself but after seeing the result i decided it was better to leave it to specialists

Man, the pics shows like your blades have terminal cancer and sh1t like that...

 

[SlowPower]

Cutting the rubber and then realise I also cut into the edge of the blade...

 

[SlowPower]

Exactly what i do 😁

The most annoying thing about gluing the rubbers is the ridiculous price of the latex glue.

I only use normal latex milk like this

Lilatex Flüssiglatex / Latexmilch 1Liter/1000ml natur-dünnflüssig | eBay

Alle Special-Effekte und Aufbauten incl. Farbiges Flüssiglatex / Latexmilch 1 Liter (dünnflüssig). Lilatex ist eine Marke der Tilutec, hat sich auf Latex spezialisiert und bietet über 350 verschieden Latexprodukte.

www.ebay.de

 

[riemsesy]

I only use normal latex milk like this

Lilatex Flüssiglatex / Latexmilch 1Liter/1000ml natur-dünnflüssig | eBay

Alle Special-Effekte und Aufbauten incl. Farbiges Flüssiglatex / Latexmilch 1 Liter (dünnflüssig). Lilatex ist eine Marke der Tilutec, hat sich auf Latex spezialisiert und bietet über 350 verschieden Latexprodukte.

www.ebay.de

This works?

 

[The_TT_Bat_Guy]

Cutting the rubber and then realise I also cut into the edge of the blade...

I definitely faced that issue when I first started assembling table tennis bats. I feel your pain

 

[The_TT_Bat_Guy]

i tried a few times to assemble my TT bat myself but after seeing the result i decided it was better to leave it to specialists

This instructional I did could help you -

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I once did around 50 bats in a weekend.
it was extremely tiring.
I would like go 10 to 20 rubbers at a time.

glue 1 layer on, then go do something else
come back and glue 2nd layer and blade
then come back, put it on
then go rest a bit and then come and restart.
I would then at a later stage to a cut only and then start the cycle of gluing the rubbers on the other side.

other than time, you need a very large working bench.

took 3 days to cut, as I did it slowly.
I know other people would use hairdryer to speed it up. your use thicker glue, so only 1 layer is required, but I took my time and did other things inbetween

 

[pong99]

I don't really get annoyed anymore. I accept that when I glue rubber, it will not look perfect.

Once I was at the club and a customer wanted to buy a new setup and the owner was giving a lesson so I was asked to glue the rubber on for the customer.

Before doing it, I made sure to show the customer my personal blade and told them it will look like this. The end result will not look like a factory made premade with perfect edges. The customer said ok that's fine.

 

[The_TT_Bat_Guy]

I once did around 50 bats in a weekend.
it was extremely tiring.
I would like go 10 to 20 rubbers at a time.

glue 1 layer on, then go do something else
come back and glue 2nd layer and blade
then come back, put it on
then go rest a bit and then come and restart.
I would then at a later stage to a cut only and then start the cycle of gluing the rubbers on the other side.

other than time, you need a very large working bench.

took 3 days to cut, as I did it slowly.
I know other people would use hairdryer to speed it up. your use thicker glue, so only 1 layer is required, but I took my time and did other things inbetween

Woah - that's a lot! I've done 5 at once and that was quite an adventure already. I'd probably need to use a couple of fresh sponges for the glue too if I did more setups. I've found that a small desk fan helps speed up the glue drying process more evenly than the hairdryer does - mostly because if there's a thick layer of glue then the hairdryer might only end up drying the topmost part properly.

 

[Federal_Agent]

I haven't a knife cybershape form to use here 👇🏼

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Woah - that's a lot! I've done 5 at once and that was quite an adventure already. I'd probably need to use a couple of fresh sponges for the glue too if I did more setups. I've found that a small desk fan helps speed up the glue drying process more evenly than the hairdryer does - mostly because if there's a thick layer of glue then the hairdryer might only end up drying the topmost part properly.

for the glue sponge, it was about 6 to 8 sheets of rubbers before I had to change, as the sponge will go brittle.

yes, desk fan/hairdryer all helps, but there was no ways I'm drying all of the wet sheets there.
PLUS, I needed the break inbetween