Restoring your topsheet with oil (video)

Hmmm, never tried sunflower oil. But I've tried using parafin oil with liquid soap. Not more than 5 minutes time, become grippy again.

Cool! I look forward to trying all types!

Heimdallalso wrote: I'd love to know The Architect's findings!

In concordance

Speedplay wrote: I've done it a couple of times to force out the last life of the rubber =) Works pretty good, but I've only applied one layer, applied it with a cloth and left it to soak for ~30 minutes. Removed the excess oil and the bat was ready to play. Gives more grip to grippy rubbers and restores the tackiness to tacky rubbers. Makes it able to squeeze out an extra month of usage for the rubber.

I can tell you it will make the bat heavier over time. My dad used to wipe his with corn oil all the time. When he died I got his bat. It weighed a ton! The sponge was soaked with oil. It does not evaporate like water does. It builds up.When I took the rubbers off, the wood even had oil soaked into it.

Heimdallalso wrote: Speedplay wrote: I've done it a couple of times to force out the last life of the rubber =) Works pretty good, but I've only applied one layer, applied it with a cloth and left it to soak for ~30 minutes. Removed the excess oil and the bat was ready to play. Gives more grip to grippy rubbers and restores the tackiness to tacky rubbers. Makes it able to squeeze out an extra month of usage for the rubber.   Such an application will subsequently only garner a systemic performance enhancement for a set period of time... ergo, the suggestion to "squeeze out an extra month of usage for the rubber" is concrdantly a "correct" one. In this time line & any time line!

Vis-à-vis more spin and cash flow... while this answer functions it is obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise buzzing sound on the enez machine at tournaments.

at last somebody makes sense here

did this with my neo prov. worked like a charm....gave me two more months before switching to blue sponge g999 national..

I usually wet sanded old dead topsheets with 1000 then 2000 grit wet and dry sandpaper if I wasdesperate to get some more life from them before I could get new ones. Well these days I just buy new ones, but for many years I did this, I was able to get 3 years from a Chinese rubber no problem if I sanded the dead outer layer off it once each 12 months. 

Thaidog wrote: Imago wrote: Recently, I have found that buying a hew rubber is the best topsheet restoration. Interesting... I've got an old Spin Art topsheet... care to help me restore it?

Well thanks that's very generous of you! Seeming that Spin Art is $65 I can use any break to get a lower price!

To achieve the best results you better do this exercise while the rubber is off the blade

Anyone add oil to tenergy 64?  My sheet is pretty dead now and I'm tempted to try it.

Tuning H3 neo provincial or national is a must. My H3 national neo blue sponge loose it's factory tune in 2 weeks. It become slow and I got frustrated. I tune it with baby oil at first, but the result isn't that great.

Later I tune it with Parafin oil, it has been more than 2 weeks now, still plays very well and hasn't slow down from the first time tuning.

I put parafin oil on topsheet of my Neo H3C 40degree, just like the video on the first post....

After one time application, and let it dry (more precisely soaked), and the topsheet become softer and more elastic... Become a little bit tacky, but not as tacky as it was when I open it for the first time from the plastic pack.

It play much better than the brand new.

When I remove it from the blade, the rubber is dome a lot, it seems like the topsheet expand...
Pretty tough to reglue it with that condition. FYI: I use Haifu WBG.

After reglue, it still plays very good.

Over all, after the tuning on topsheet using Parafin oil, my Neo H3C, softer more elastic, no significant change on speed, but spin much better....

Worth to try (of course at your own risk... :D )