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Is there a way to minimize the smell of some rubber? I particularly cannot stand the smell of the tibhar evolution. Love the smell of tacky chinese rubber tho.

I hope this is some tiny joke

Usually if you clean your rubber topsheet with orange oil or olive oil it might be possible to replace the smell.

If you want to do something stronger, try boosting with double-distilled Eucalyptus oil on the sponge

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Just keep the rubber on droughty place for a week. This is the only remedy I know.

Once the smell goes, though, it's dead.. booster has run out...

Iskandar

I actually liked the evolution series smell vs chinese hurricane neos but thats just me

Chinese rubber does smell like a tire shop...

Iskandar

Haha funnily the blue sponge doesn't tho.

Depends on which blue sponge - I don't recall Big Dipper smelling any different than anything else. Maybe the DHS blue sponge doesn't...

Iskandar

Yeap was referring to the dhs h3 at least mine weren't, to be fair its first time using the blue one now

I'm always amused by the translation on the back of DHS rubber:

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