Yes, this is about boosters, again...

[DukeGaGa]

Maybe they do this to warm up the rubber and glue before removing it? Previously, very sticky rubber glue was rolled off the lining with an iron.
Tony, who are the vets?

There are lots of different treatments that can be done to long pips to make it weirder, like boiling it, dipping it in chemicals, etc. The point is to either enlarge the pip structure, or make the pips more slippery, or both。

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Tony, who are the vets?

I have no idea

 

[igorponger]

Waiting for a comment from Igor

Here in Russia some pongers switched to the dry boosting on rubbers that needs no chemical additives at all. This is a manual mechanical processing with a weighty solid roller. It looks a promissive idea, indeed.

 

[Egon]

Here in Russia some pongers switched to the dry boosting on rubbers that needs no chemical additives at all. This is a manual mechanical processing with a weighty solid roller. It looks a promissive idea, indeed.

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I don’t care what’s going on there in your russia. When will you withdraw your troops from our land, when will you stop launching missiles at our peaceful cities and killing sleeping civilians?

 

[Milton Table Tennis Club]

This reminds me of the volcano science fair projects combining vinegar and baking soda, rapidly producing CO2 bubbles.

What I don't understand is that if everything needed for the chemical reaction is already inside the Falco booster bottle (baking soda, wax, vitamin and oil), then when I open it it up, why doesn't it release pressurized CO2?

Does the chemical reaction releasing CO2 only begin when applied to the sponge? If so, there must be something in the sponge that causes the reaction and curious what that is if that's the case.

 

[Tyce]

This reminds me of the volcano science fair projects combining vinegar and baking soda, rapidly producing CO2 bubbles.

What I don't understand is that if everything needed for the chemical reaction is already inside the Falco booster bottle (baking soda, wax, vitamin and oil), then when I open it it up, why doesn't it release pressurized CO2?

Does the chemical reaction releasing CO2 only begin when applied to the sponge? If so, there must be something in the sponge that causes the reaction and curious what that is if that's the case.

There's no chemical reaction producing gas.
Booster literally expands the sponge structure, it gets absorbed into the rubbery stuff and makes it bigger that way.