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Hi

I want to ask

What is the most tacky rubber ? Preferably on harder sponge.
And how to make a rubber more tacky than it's new condition ?

I read somewhere that one guy said to brush topsheet with a layer of solvent e.g. acetone to remove the worn layer.

Any ideas are welcome

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Hurricane 3 is one of the most tacky rubbers with a hard sponge. You don’t need a tackier rubber then hurricane 3. Don’t worry about messing around with acetone, you’ll just wreck your rubbers

The original Spinmax could make a rubber tackier when you over used it, it's solvent was heptane I think. It's all nasty stuff, be very careful.

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Long experienced rubber maker Mr. Opochinsky answers your question

TO THOSE INTERESTED. HOW CHINESE TACKY RUBBER IS MADE AT THE DHS FACTORY..

There are three technological ways. The most used way is this
— Raw rubber mass is subjected to thermal vulcanization at temperatures of 140-150 * C. The result is a ready-made SHEET of rubber, durable and elastic, with moderate adhesion on the playing side. If one side of the mold is cooled all along the vulcanization, then the raw mass on this side retains its original properties of raw rubber, that is very strong adhesion (tackiness). The outward adhesive layer is extremely thin, hundredths of a millimeter, so the DHS Hurricane rubbers all lose their original tackiness due to mechanical abrasion on the playing surface and it is never possible to restore the original adhesion anyway at all. Whoever says that he knows some good remedy, he talks trashy tale or he lies like a gray dog.

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If you keep you rubber clean covered with protection sheet the tackiness will remain. I think rubber likes pure water, so covering slightly dump rubber after cleaning is just fine.

Naah.. they put glue on the surface. That's why it wears off after a few hours. Anything rubbing on the surface makes it worse. Whatever you use to clean the rubber, don't rub on it hard.

Then there's good old Hurricane IV...



Iskandar