TearMender > Yes! Paste

I found that Yes Paste doesn't do as well as Tear Mender in keeping the edges of the racket attached.  With Yes Paste you can easily peal the rubber off so it can come loose if you brush your racket against the table (though you can moisten it to reattach).  Tear Mender is better at keeping the rubber firmly attached to the blade.

Anyone try Stiga Attach power glue?  They used to sell it at TTP, but I don't see it anymore.  It's about 10x thicker than tear mender (it clumps up before you have a chance to spread it out).  Maybe if I mix the stiga and tear mender it will have just the right consistency.

dalamchops.....how much time has elapsed from the moment you first start applying the glue, till the moment you put them togather?

dalamchops wrote: less than a minute.

It might be because you put too little glue on the blade or sponge. Tear Mender does dry pretty fast. I tried putting more and it was still quite wet after I spread the glue on both the blade and sponge. One problem is it tend to ooze out of the edge of the blade, but removing it after it's dry is very easy.

dalamchops wrote: less than a minute.

Mine was not like the stuff in the video of the guy who had to tape off his blade.   It was.....maybe like you say Hookshot, alittle thinner than honey. 

Rich215 wrote: Ok...I just opend a new bottle of TM. It was not thin and runny at all. I was actually suprised at how thick it was. Maybe it is because I keep my house at 65 degrees?   It may be temp sensitive, as the label states "do not let freeze".

Tear Mender is supposed to be very wet and runny. Though you are not the first person to report that when they opened a new bottle of Tear Mender it was actually fairly thick.

My hypothesis about this is that at some point in the life of that brand-new bottle of Tear Mender someone did let it freeze or come into some other form of temperature extreme that caused the latex in the Tear Mender to coagulate.