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[king_of_spin]

Can someone please post instructions on how to use both of them? I haven't played in 4 years and forgot everything. How long should you wait after each optimizer layer? Is it true that you need to wait 24 hours on the last layer?

How long does the effect last? I generally use 3 layers.

I have been using speed optimizer on my tenergy 05 and tenergy 64 but the stretch is too too big. The dome is too big. Can I reduce this? Say lamp oil??The free chack is terrible and not helping either as it doesn't stick well to the blade and the rubber keeps coming off. Free chack doesn't stick as well as the old glues did...

And for free chack.. any tips on peeling off the glue? it's so so hard to peel and makes a huge mess. Takes ages with my thumb. Any products I can use?

Do I have to peel off after each time I wanna re-apply? Because I heard it's hard for speed optimizer to penetrate if the free chack residue is still on...

[ejunkie]

you really shouldn't stretch Tenergy with anything because it will get smaller and lose the feel. To reduce the dome you apply something like lighter fluid to the topsheet. It will make it dome in the opposite direction; hence canceling the dome but not the effect. Sorry I can't help you on other.

[king_of_spin]

i thought lighter fluid was for removing glue. can't waiting longer remove the dome?

[ejunkie]

Anything with solvent like lf or some oil would make the rubber dome. The idea of putting it on the topsheet is to allow you to quickly glue the rubber on the blade before the glue effect weakens. It would if you left it sitting. No dome means less effect also.
Still, the best solution is not to toy with Tenergy since it's not designed to be "speed glue"; it's already "speed glued". Unless your sheet of Tenergy is old the best you can do is to put solvent and play the hell out of it. In a matter of a very short time it will die of horrible death.