Effects of Ecolo Expander II (w/ pics)

My personal opinion after a limited trial on a few Chinese rubbers is that it seems to affect speed more on softer sponges, maybe 50% of speed glue. On harder sponges it has only a small effect on the the speed, maybe 10%. On the harder rubbers the best effect is on spin where due to the stretching you get it has a similar increase in spin to what you might expect when using speed glue.

wow, how are you going to glue that to the paddle!?

And get it to stay on.. with that amount of doming does it not kinda peel off the paddle?

yea.. i had to put like 2 layers of fix, regular glue, to hold the edges in place.. and on my other blade, i used the clamp over night.. and that worked.. but still you just have to be patient.. phamster

Yes. You need much patience and rubber cement to keep that kind of dome stuck to the blade. 

YATTP, JKC makes a good point about varying effects on different types of rubbers.  I have used it primarily on Japanese Rubbers like Sriver FX, Takifire SP Soft, Pro Alpha, Reforma, and Takiness Drive.  All of these mid soft and really softish Japanese rubbers domed like crazy and really helped out the speed.  SP Soft was dead until EE II, now a great rubber. I would say you get increased spin, but way more increase in speed.

ppgear wrote: Yeah it was hard to glue; the edges are still creeping up a bit, after being pressed for a few days. And this is with 2 layers of cement on the blade and 3 on the rubber. I just switched to this after using my old Cream MRS that is probably almost two years old. This ecolo'd rubber is definitely playing fast, but since I was using such an old rubber before, I can't tell how much is due to the ecolo. I'll slap on a new, regular Cream MRS and compare later. I'm pretty sure it's a big effect though because I'm having a harder time controlling it.