Hurricane 2 changed. WHEN?

I was looking at some H2 top sheets I have today I noticed that they are totally different!, one has wide apart pimples and one tightly packed. Does anyone know when they changed?. One was removed from a #19 sponge and the other is a top sheet only in official DHS packaging.  Now either DHS changed H2 at some stage or one of these isn't the real deal. We need to investigate this

just keep getting the ones you like, nicefrog. I dont think even the TT gods know the answers to this senselessness lol.

Maybe a case of really bad quality control.

Here's a picture the black sheet is the #19 H2 which I think maybe fake, if it's not fake then it's just no good :)

From all the variations, I think it is just really bad quality control.  Really bad!

It's clearly not a quality control issue. These are not the same topsheets, I agree with nicefrog. Could the bad H2 topsheet be instead a H3 topsheet (with bad logo) ? Or, yes, total fakes.

I bought H3/19 from presports last summer and none of them had hardness specified on the sponge. Since they were slow as hell (but supposely faster than previous H3 20/21), I thought they might be fake.

Anyway, these rubbers can't behave the same way... what differences did you notice nicefrog ?

Ok Blue sponge results are in, firstly I've learned the blue sponge is made from entirely different stuff than all the other DHS sponges. It can not be removed with boiling water. Normally they seperate easy as. The blue sponge tears and breaks up and basically just falls apart when trying to remove it. However! 4 top sheets and they are ALL different. The top sheet from the blue sponge has the same pimple spacing as the original few years old red sheet pictured above but *slightly* thicker pimples, not much different but a little bit at least these two are close. Moral of that story is if you need to buy a rubber to remove the topsheet to stick on another sponge don't buy a blue sponge because you wont be getting it off. I saw some post old man haggisv made one where he rolled his eyes suggesting he didn't think the blue sponge was much/different that's the impression I got :) but cleary it is alot different.

I believe that all other things being the same a thick pimple makes a lower throw, which makes sense because the red commercial I have on my backhand although the sponge is also different does have a higher throw than the blue sponge (this red commercial has alot thinner pimples) it's still a good rubber and lower than H3 but not the same.

Anyway, after all this I'm a bit unhappy and I've decided I will have to change to a different brand that can make me the same rubber each time I need one (I might need to use my last blue sponge and try a neo first :) )

Yeah but H3 is never any good :), then again I could have been using who knows what :P

DHS commercial (and 729) rubbers behave inconstantly, I did notice that too. I thought it was sponge issue, but now, thanks to nicefrog, I realise it's more a rubber issue. And that's logical, since it easier to produce regular sponge than sophisticated pimples rubbers.

Anyway, since you are looking for constant quality rubbers, Bomb Mopha and UFO clearly are of that kind. I use 5 Mopha J sheets this season and they all behaved the same way. And the one UFO I play with now is great too. No trick at all. But they ain't chinese spirit rubbers, but eurojap ones. Non tacky, light and fast (Mopha is the lighest and fastest of both).

nicefrog, to remove the blue sponge put a piece of cloth on it, then iron it, try to remove the topsheet, if you still can't iron it again.. I removed my H2 topsheet from it's blue sponge in less than 5 minutes..
Now that you mention it, Iam so GLAD I did not decide to boil it first!!!

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