Remove glue sheet, but peeled off some wooden pieces

Lionel Unknown Asked 15 years ago

Hi Alois,

I peeled off my Butterfly Sriver Red last night from my Butterfly Chinese Real blade.  It was because the rubber has been through 7 times non-successful gluing which showed bubblings between sponge and blade using FIT CHACK.  So the final attempt I put it on a Butterfly chack-sheet.  So what I did last night was to peel off the Sriver rubber from the chack sheet and trying to glue a Butterfly Tackifire Special Soft on the blade to evaluate the spin rate performance.

To my horror when I tried to peel the rubber from the chacksheet, I had some pieces of wood peeled off together with the chack-sheet, and a 4-cm cut through the sponge (not the topsheet), leaving me with bruised sponge, and some damaged pieces of the blade.

What a bad experience....and I used my little bit of Clean Chack to glue Tackifire Special Soft to the slight damaged blade, and fortunately today it could still play a bit.  But just feel bad that the speed of the ball leaving the rubber is noticeably slower though spin rate might be slightly higher.  I have lost games to players whom I previously beat while using Sriver because my loop could be counter smash easily when the speed is slower from Tackifire.

Everything above seems bad experience and bad results with nothing much to cheer.  

I can only wish you for advice...

a)  if I can do anything to repair the tiny bit of surface of the blade or I can just leave it as it is if it is not affecting my game? 

b)  Also, could I still play with the Sriver rubber with the sponge sustaining some damage (especially the cut of the sponge about 4cm long but the top sheet is still ok).  I can see sink mark on the top sheet when viewed on the top sheet.

Thanks coach.....hopefully your replies to the question above can soothe some of my feelings of disappointment ....

Alois Rosario Answered 15 years ago

Hi Lionel,

Sounds like a disaster.

The wood can be repaired.  If you still have the piece that was removed use some PVA glue.  If not, you can use some wood filler. This is a simple procedure.

The sponge however is more difficult.  I don't have an answer to repairing the sponge.  If you leave it like that it is illegal, as the surface has to be even.  The sink marks will make it illegal.

Maybe someone else has experienced this and can help.

Good luck Lionel.