The Andro Hexer, Donic Barracusa and Tenergy 05 all have porous sponges beneath the its topsheet. The porous sponges absorb more glue. The pressure layer generated between the rubber and blade can break easily if there is no enough glue to make the bond.
The water based glue does not help to make the bond strong on a single application. It requires some additional steps to make the Andro Hexer type rubbers fit well on a blade.
The following steps will help to generate greater bond.
1. Take the rubber out form the case and keep it for like 12 hours. Please don’t expose to open air. Keep in a racket case.
2. After 12 hours, put one layer of water based glue.
3. Wait for 5 minutes and put one more layer of water based glue.
4. Put a layer of glue on the blade.
5. Wait for 10 minutes until the glue is dry on both blade and rubber.
6. Put the rubber back on the blade now.
7. If you get a chance to hit with the blade, use it for 10 minutes.
8. Remove the rubber from the blade.
9. Put glue both on blade and rubber.
10. Wait for 10 minutes until the glue is dry.
11. Put rubber back on and you are ready to go.
Please avoid pressing hard the rubber on the blade by hand, roller or keeping under a stack of books. It is not also advisable to glue every day. Frequent gluing will change the behavior of some of these rubbers. Over time, the glue bond can dispose itself between the blade and the rubber. You can plan re-gluing with the same procedure after 3 weeks.
The water based glue does not increase the speed to the rubbers we have discussed here. This process helps the rubber to bond better with the blade, and consistent performance.
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aghhh!!! Varghese!! and HIS theories. >8( ….
I love you for being such a nice and authentic person,
And I wish you had physics or chemistry in your elementary school.
Grrrr…..
“the porous sponge absobes glue more” …. boss!! If you see the pores that means they a bigger… but that is not an indicator of total volume of air in the sponge to absorb glue. a fine pored sponge may have more air but just finer distribution, while a coarse pored sponge may be more dense in sponge mass.
Glue soaking up is not the ‘thing’ in these sponges that make them special… if it was just making sponges with bigger pores, your next door neighbor could make speed glue sponges. didn’t have to wait 10 years.
lastly these rubbers play as good even if you use a glue sheet to attach them… where there is no infusion taking place. so pl do this and check for yourself. Yes, I have done that too.
…and yes any rubber would play better if after a few days of playing you take it off and re attach it.. that’s because it gets stress relief… that’s it.
but anyway this theory is less crazy than the glue absorption through the blade to the rubber on other side
You please stop misinterpreting my article and confusing the readers with your eccentric comments. I will respond to sensible comments only, so I won’t to yours. Someone can understand a costume malfunction, but don’t make it as a habit. Please be aware of this when you post comments here next time.
do either of you speak english? roflmao
What about you?
I glued my Hexer with one layer on sponge and blade and it worked just fine. I don’t think this post about re-glueing has much merit.
I just bought a new Tenergy05 (RED) and have it glued and cut in the shop. The next day, it shrunk. Aaaarrggghh!!!! I should have read this article first. Next time I buy the Tenergy05(Black), I’ll follow this blogpost. Thanks Varghese!
Hexer with just one layer of glue will play just fine but a bit slow. You should at least reglue it 1 or 2 times more. Andro also suggests that.
Then I glued only one layer, I feel its not “They say - it’s magic”. My backhand didn’t work at all. After this recommendations : “it’s magic”