Galaxy Moon (T05) Sun(T25) Mars(T64) reviews

Imago wrote: After a moderate week practice, the red topsheet of my Sun fell apart on several places.

May I ask what is the temperature in your playing court?


Edited by ttc537dp - 02/08/2011 at 7:17am

I have experience that I left the bat in car boot for the whole day a few time, where the sun shine directly on the car. The outside temperature is as high as 30C. The top sheet fell apart from the sponge finally. I never do that again as far as possible.

Hi,

Maybe you used a roller to glue the rubber on with the glue still a bit viscous ? That way tension is build in between rubber and blade. Some of the newer rubbers seem to have problem with that due to their own inbuild tension. In general (even a mark V) if it,s not meant to be reglued building in that type of tension is not a good idea. Tension from the outside (the blade) is not the same as tension from within the rubber. With freshglue it was done to gain speed and lower the throw somewhat due to a drumskin effect of the topsheet to the sponge. But it never improved spin. oing this without the intention of regluing oesn,t work because the tension is lost within a few days and what is left is a rubber with less tension from within.

Instead of a roller it,s better to massage the rubber on (fingers, handpalm ) with small rotating movements and some water or oil on the topsheet to decrease resistance/grip.
A massage has the intention to take tension away offcourse and it works the same for the rubber.
The glue is still somewhat viscous and massaging makes that  the rubber is without tension to the blade but firmly attached. That noticably improves the properties (katapult, spin, inbuild glueeffect) of glue effect rubbers but also classic rubbers as Mark V.



Edited by mercuur - 02/08/2011 at 10:48am

Tried the lovely approach today (no roller) and the feeling is much better. Yet the improvement may be due to the change of blade. Black Sun on HK performs so far great.

debraj wrote: just received my Red Moon 37 degree today for BH.  [they should you 4 color black on the packaging...to improve depth of the black color. ] however, the fact that it is vacuum packed... raises concern on durability of the glue effect. hope i'm wrong.

What thickness is your Red Moon 37deg?  And what blade are you going to pair it with?

I can't wait for your review...

You can feel the inbuilt glue effect only in the sound.

Please, don't forget to measure your Moon before and after.

does anyone know which one is most similar to H2 Neo and H3 Neo?

After 3 days of using Moon 2.0mm 34 degree, I have determined that it does not suit my backhand. More balls go into the net when I loop mid-distance and correcting the issue by swinging harder is tiresome.

However, I am still loving it on the FH. The percentage of my loops that hit the table is quite impressive compared to when I used Tenergy05. And I am starting to get consistently short, strong-spin serves, whereas initially I had trouble serving with Moon.
I had the opportunity to smash quite a bit while playing a defensive player last night. I didn't feel that Moon smashes faster than Tenergy, but it does smash more consistently.
Also the weight of Moon is much lighter than Ten05, allowing for quicker recovery after committing to a stroke. With less mass to swing around, I feel like I have more control over the ball, as if I could loop and then come in for a drop shot.

Imago wrote: Neither. Mercury 2 @ 37 degrees is the closest alternative to H3 Pro @ 38 degrees.

You think so?

Yep, I've tried so many rubbers and I've tried telling people I know to try this rubber, none of them want to touch $4 rubber . I hated the mercury 1, though..

So imago.. you think sun has some non-linearity? 

debraj wrote: however, the fact that it is vacuum packed... raises concern on durability of the glue effect. hope i'm wrong.

Neither Sun nor Moon are tuned, which should help durability.

Has anyone tried two Moons with different sponges?  Are their speed or spin differences?

Debraj- I had the same issues of dumping balls into the net from the bh. On the fh side, moon plays much better. I've been using moon fh and acuda s3 for bh during my last 2 sessions and am quite pleased.

mindtrip... thx. i will definitely try after the tourney