Making Speed Glue

There are 2 common slovent that the manufacturer use.

You use 3 parts Toluene to 1 part rubber cement that is like very thin.  Do you have problems sticking your rubber to your blade?

Good idea to avoid those two I use cigarette lighter fluid but 40 to 50% and Dlimonene 5 to 10%.  You could also use Best test glue thinner in place of the lighter fluid.

wfwfitz wrote: Good idea to avoid those two I use cigarette lighter fluid but 40 to 50% and Dlimonene 5 to 10%.� You could also use Best test glue thinner in place of the lighter fluid.

good to know, i thought the only purpose to use lighter fluid on your sponge was to clean the excess glue build up

try tricloroethylene, the glue kim taek soo used to beat wang tao in 1995

so from what i read above, i can mix my best test cement with the bestine thinner, about 50% to 50% mix and creat some awesome speed glue..

Is it true lighter fuel (Rosonol) is forbidden?

Hi, Cole

cole_ely wrote: Best test plus heptane (bestine) will not create an awesome speed glue. Basically you just end up with a very thin rubber cement. Heptane softens the sponge but doesn't add a lot of speed, mostly just spin. It works good to soften and spin up harder chinese sponges.

that might not be a bad thing.. the sheet of torpedo that i ordered recently is too hard..

and this bestine might be the solution to my needs... 

i should have ordered the torpedo soft..

thanks

phamster

Peter C wrote: Phamster Are you still using the Gambler Arylate Carbon?

OH yes.. i love this Gambler blade..  BUT i had to make some basic tuning before i fell in love with this blade...

it came some what still to fast for my likings, i swing too hard, so i need just a tad more flex...

and it was just a hair heavy for me too...it weighed out 87 grams on my calibrated scale.. i work in a quality control dept, so i have access to a high level scale.. and we put a cover over it to keep the air movement from changing the readings of the grams.. down to the one hundreths..

but the blade oem came 87 grams..

so here is what i have done..

made it more flexible.. by shaving the throat down a little bit.. also that allowed me to hold it higher on the blade handle and more comfort too..



and i had tom from zero pong drill out the handle to make it 4-6 grams lighter for over all weight improvement..



tom will do it if you ask him kindly..

plus the weight on the top not changed and the flexible throat, gave this blade a little more kick..


i have used the EEII expander on my rubbers , check out the results..

look at the dome on this sheet of speedy spin premium !!!

so after all of that.. i am loving this blade..

i can hit it hard and still have the loop drop on the table... for a carbon blade... this isn't fast.. but the sweet spot on this blade is much bigger than a non carbon blade..

so i guess it equates to a between all around and off -  blade with a great huge sweet spot !!!

btw the weight of the blade wouldn't be so much if i didn't order a straight handle... the flare is much smaller and the weight is like 7-9 grams lighter.. but i like the huge straight handle..

phamster

yea.. it is alot of "tuning"...

i am an engineer for a car plant, i guess i like to fiddle with my toys...wink...

as to the speedy spin on the blade,  i had to put 2 good thick layers of fix rubber cement.. best test rubber white cement to get the rubber to stick...

then after on session, i started to use speed glue on it just for fun.. and found it hard to stick on the blade.. so i clamped it for about 1 hour, but the edges still came off..

then the 2nd and 3rd day.. i tried the speed glue thing agian and had success..

but now i just reglued the domed up speedy spin with normal fix it and left it alone with out speed glue... it is too fast as it is anyways... and it is my back hand side so don't really need the speed , just need the blocking and opening loop flip from the slice..or push...

As to the EEII i am still playing around with this on some of my rubbers and some i don't use EEII like my forehand side.. i just speed glue since i can still...

but i guess EEII works like it is advertised... domes up the rubber, but it isn't really a replace ment for the speed glue..

i really dont knowi if there really is a good replacement for the speed glue...

i would say  EEII creates some speed.. and some spin.. if true speed glue creates 100 percent out put... then the EEII creates about 50 - 60 percent..

same with the sound.. you have to hit it harder to hear the click sound..

well that is my experience on this sheet of speedy spin prem...

phamster