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zeio 
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 Posted: 12/29/2016 at 9:05pm |
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I don't know what else is more useless than a battery-powered hair dryer. A mere 400-watt one lasts 15 minutes only.
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+ Neo H3 2.15 Blk - 44.5g(55.3g uncut bare) + Hexer HD 2.1 Red - 49.3g(68.5g 〃 〃) = 184.8g |
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hidasjoki
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As someone who lives in the arctic I can say that a rubber warmer would be useful to a small market of players but even then, most of us just use our breathe to warm up our freezing rubber lol..... maybe it is useless
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JacekGM
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Posted: 12/30/2016 at 9:32pm |
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So it has come to this...
I would rather had a discussion on dwelltime. EDIT: Happy New Year everybody!
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Baal
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benfb
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Posted: 12/31/2016 at 8:17pm |
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How does a hair dryer help with rubber that has pulled away from the paddle?
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NextLevel
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Posted: 12/31/2016 at 8:21pm |
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By racket control guys, I didn't mean they would test for temperature. I meant that by the time the racket was submitted for testing and only handed to the players just before the match, all the advantages of heating the rubber would have dissipated.
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I like putting heavy topspin on the ball...
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benfb
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Any insight on this?
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AndySmith
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I always hesitate when trying to interpret igor's insights, but my guess is that he wants it to dry water-based glue as quickly as possible. I keep a small mains-powered hairdryer in my TT bag for this reason (doubles up for quiff-related emergencies too).
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benfb
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My hope was that he had some clever way to reglue rubber that is peeling along the edge. I've got a sheet right now on my paddle that has pulled up a little along the edge. Not enough where I want to reglue it, and I can't figure out an easy repair.
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Rich215
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With water glues.... Igor's method of getting some glue in there while holding up the rubber slightly....then blasting with hot air.....then pressing together. That is a great way....but now if your in a hurry or do not have a hair drying close by. So I usually just use a toothpick to apply some glue under the pulled up edge and spread around as best as you can without lifting up anymore glued area. Then just let if flap back down and you will have to hold it together for several minutes. Putting something heaving on it for 5-15 mins like a book or something works good. Of course it all depends on how thin the glue layer you just shoved in there is. Sometimes I put an extra piece of edge tape there if there is no time to let it dry after pressing together. That is really the 2 choices you have when small areas of the rubber come unglued off the edges. |
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Rich215
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Oh....about the rubber warmer.....I used to warm up my rubbers by putting my towel around a large radiator pipe that was extremely hot....then wrapped the towel around my blade to warm up or get the rubbers at least up to room temp. Easy to get it above room temp....
But as mentioned.....in time is just goes back to the room temp and this change effects your game. Id rather deal with a consistent rubber grip/feel than have this change effect. So to bring up a racket to room temp.....great product......to use it for advantage of getting the rubber warmer than room temps for max grip/performance.......futile attempt at best for better play performance. |
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benfb
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Our club isn't usually open on Sundays, but we opened yesterday because it was New Years and people thought it would be fun. The furnace is on a schedule (meant so that the building is only warm during the regular hours when the club is open), so that meant we had to turn the furnace on manually. However, after a couple of hours the schedule (thermostat) took over again, shutting down the furnace. And we were having too much fun (especially those drinking beer) to bother with the furnace again.
The point of this story is that it got quite cold in our club the last couple of hours. I could feel my rubbers getting very cold. It made them much harder to control, to spin the ball (much less spin than usual), and to feel the ball. Eventually, I adjusted by using loop drives all the time (instead of my preferred slow loop) because hitting the ball hard went through the top sheet and gave me control with the sponge. Other players struggle more to adjust (the loopers, anyway) and had a rough time. I could really see where a rubber warmer would be really helpful for this.
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put the racket under armpit for a few minutes. done.
also, there is such a thing as heating pads out there. Including the ones that you heat up in the microwave. FdT
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