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HOW and WHY Chinese are boosting "huricans" rubbers.

The elasticity of rubber is the ability of rubber material to return the impact energy in response to the deformation of rubber. In laboratory conditions, the elasticity of rubber is measured using a standard tool, -- the Shob pendulum. Hurikans with a blue sponge are not elastic enough, so Chinese athletes themselves manually saturate the sponge with technical oils and then do self-control, measure the thickness of the rubber with a digital thickness gauge, thereby the judge will never be able to catch a dirty Chinese. Manual booster is a dirty, dreary activity and unstable results.
The DHS factory uses the process of immersion of uncut sponge sheets in hot oil, followed by lamination to the desired thickness. This is how an exclusive national series turns out, it is not sold in stores, the batch goes directly from the factory to China sports centers.

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Translated from Russian by the @Google Translator engine.

Technical oils my foot.

Iskandar

I agree, but this is an interesting theory nonetheless.
Take the shortest path that works, instead of developing a better product/rubber material.

This is likely not what you guys wanted to read. But it is what I think makes sense. Since there is no good way to test "non-factory" boosted, or even factory boosted rubbers on the spot. Means minutes before a game, around the world any kind of semi serious tournament. It actually makes more sense to allow boosting with non-VOC substances, and make sure the thickness is kept within 4.0mm. Thickness is easy to check. They also already have/had machines for checking VOC.

If everybody who wishes to boost can boost, then it is also fair. Tedious and time consuming yes, but we were gluing with VOCs in the old days all the time too.

Dirty Chinese. LOL

I use baby oil and don't feel dirty at all.

Give me 09c at 4 x the $

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There's nothing wrong with the theory - the Chinese (and everyone else) boost rubbers to make them softer. Softer means faster and bouncier. Particularly useful with hard Chinese rubbers and sponge. Not sure why the likes of long-chain alkanes and baby oil would be "technical", though.

Iskandar