Tenergy + Dianchi & Falco Boost.

AMonteiro wrote: Falco and TRF works well on Tenergy, just one layer if the rubber is new. More layers and the rubber gets too soft and mushy.

I tried TRF long ago. The speed on touch game went up a lot. Very hard to control short game. Not good at all.

For Falco long, I boosted once on used half life T05 after dug it up from 5month storage. Rubber was slower than a new sheet. It was shrunk a lit too. After boosted, it played nice and came back to life. It was little softer than a new one. I liked it and it is still on my blade. I feel it increase in speed and spin. I don't feel loosing control much in short game either. As I loop, it actually feels better. The dwell time is longer and I feel the balls sink more. Overall I like it.

I never tried heavy boosted like pics. (I will try soon on this old current sheet.)

Never tried Dianchi on T05. I have a fresh T05 and now debating between put once test Falco or Dianchi.

Edited by aroonkl - 04/16/2015 at 1:44am

most tour de france riders boost themselves ,lets do it 

smackman wrote: most tour de france riders boost themselves ,lets do it  the thing is pro's boosting and you and I down the local club are Worlds apart

If you boost T05 you will get a new rubber with:

Edited by Stavros - 04/17/2015 at 2:52am

I put 2 coats of Falco Long on current worn-out T64. It domes pretty good. I will try tonight with my reg friends if I could control in short game and block.

Edited by aroonkl - 04/17/2015 at 5:25am

Stavros wrote: I've boosted Tenergy with Falco Booster (and Long). If you boost T05 you will get a new rubber with: 1. more speed 2. less spin 3. lower throw angle 4. less durability 5. more bouncy (worst short game) I don't recommend boosting Tenergy . If you want to boost buy a cheaper rubber, you will almost have the same result.

Trf was a nightmare. Tried it on Spinart and Tenergy. Big NO NO.
I did not feel sponge went softer much. Speed in slow/medium stokes were lot faster, uncontrollable. At Hi-gear, I also did not like it, not good dwell time. The balls were just shooting out.

For Tenergy, Falco works good for me.




Edited by aroonkl - 04/17/2015 at 6:46pm

I have just boosted lightly...a 1 year old sheet of 05FX with Falco long.   I only did it because I had glued the rubber on and off about 4 times and used it little in the year.   But after regluing it a few times from 1 to 2 layers and removing the glue layers a couple times...it shrunk a few mm's. 

So just to make it fit the blade closely enough, I left 2 light layers of my Tear Mender on it...then spread a fairly thin layer on it.   Waited about 4-6 hours...and it reacted enough to dome the FX sponge more than enough....about 3mm wider than normal peremiter size.  

Then I took off the saturated glue layer and let the sponge breath and relax.  48 hours later the expansion has come back maybe half way or so.   So it is close enough the small amount of expansion I wanted.   Applied 2 light layers of TE on it again and 1 on the blade.  

I will see what happens over the course of the next month or so as to the sponge changing in anyway.....mushy or hard.....or if any loss of normal unboosted control is evident. 

The red T05fx on the other side is stock and never boosted.  It did not seem to shrink as much as the black it seems.   So I will also have a good comparison to sponge behavior after the falco wears off the black one in a month or more. 

Not sure if the normal T sponges react as much as the softer FX ones....but I was surprised to see how much it did react with a light layer through 2 layers of glue so quickly.