Enhancing rubber
Equipment
Adrian Leung Asked 11 years ago
is it ok and safe to use water and sugar and put it in your rubber
Alois Rosario Answered 11 years ago
Hi Adrian,
You can just use water. I wouldn't use sugar.
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vinay b Posted 11 years ago
what is it for??
ganesh burra Posted 11 years ago
It would only attract Ants.
Eduardo Marini Posted 11 years ago
I read that sunflower oil helps restoring decaying rubbers.My experience, it doesn, bring deads from their tumbs, but in Half way used rubbers restores spin and elasticity for a while
ganesh burra Posted 11 years ago
Using oil is illegal buddy, but don't ever apply Acetone it may dissolve ur rubber !!
Best thing to do that I learned from Alois is to clean the rubber after every session of play, and the keep the bat in envelope of transparent or even coloured plastic film (Which is used for safeguarding paper/reports etc,. and is readily available in stationery)
My personal experience is to take a cotton swap, dip in in water then add just a drop of Isopropyl alcohol and clean the rubber.
I even clean the handle of bat with higher concentration of Isopropyl alcohol.
John Bartolucci Posted 11 years ago
May have already mentioned this, but a top rated player @ my club paints a thin layer of lighter fluid onto the sponge side of his rubber almost every practice. Says it brings older rubber back to life, but is not legal (of course) for match play. Some sponge can take it, lower quality sponge cannot, and will be ruined by doing this. Either way, I don't think it is healthy to breath lighter fluid fumes every week, so I don't even try it. Have started cleaning the top sheet with a light solution of water and mild/natural dish soap. This gets the skin oil and dust off. Cheers!
ganesh burra Posted 11 years ago
I've learn that if one is using Anti-spin rubber then they may never have to clean it, because the dirt gives it more anti-spin properties.
But if one is using rubber to produce lots of spin then it is better to clean it with water after every session of play/practice.
Also it is good to wipe the bat handle with cotton swab dipped in isopropyl alcohol (diluted) on a weekly basis atleast. I've personally observed how dirty that cotton swab becomes, it's due to accumulation of sweat from palms over the week's play.
I sometimes sand the bat handle lightly after cleaning it, because it feels very nice in my palms as somewhat rough surface gives more grip to the handle.But sand very gently though.