Thread: What does 65, Shore A durometer feel like?
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Re: What does 65, Shore A durometer feel like?
Look at the McMaster-Carr site. Use the find-products field to search on 'polyurethane'. Scroll about halfway down the page and you will find a graphic that describes durometer range using examples of various points on the scales for Shore OO, Shore A, and Shore D. [there is probably a faster way to get there but the above is easy for me to remember right now.]

Shore A 65 is considered medium-hard, somewhere between tire tread and shoe heel in hardness.
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