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Old 08-23-2020, 01:45 AM   #31
Diving Gecko
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Who makes the best rubber

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From my experience the China made tubing is very poor as the modulus is not stable. It gets very hard quickly and this greatly restricts the elasticity/stretching ability of the tubing. It’s been a quite a few years since I tried it but Jay Riffe told me that he had a similar experience with it.


I checked in with my Chinese friend who runs a spear gear shop in south China and he said the same. He said that in his experience and what he hears from users is that the local rubber just drops off really fast. He said it was like “boom, one day it just looses its power” and that day happens much earlier than the western rubbers.
He did say that one of the local manufacturers said two years ago that they would offer a 100% natural latex band but he hasn’t tried it as he imports and sells RA and Sigalsub.

He hasn’t had time to try to check on the claimed Primeline from the Chinese EBay vendor but I’ll post again if he figures something out.


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Old 08-23-2020, 05:15 PM   #32
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Re: Who makes the best rubber

The Chinese probably added "Primeline" as part of the "sell", seeing that they would view many online adverts for speargun bands mentioning Primeline and they then think this addition gives their offer more appeal.
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