We’re looking at trying out some polycarbonate tubing rollers as part of our intake and are thinking ahead about options for added Gription™.
What are some things that might help us get a handle on things?
Last year we used COTS “grip tape” from Menards and replaced it every couple of matches and it worked great
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I’m pretty sure week 6 used truck bed liner on their rollers to get a better grip.
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I’m ashamed to admit I live out in truck country and don’t know if the texture of bedliner is gritty or rubbery.
Floating surgical tubing over the tube has never been a bad decision from where I’m standing. Not too hard if you have access to an air compresser.
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These power cells are so grippy you may not want any.
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We bought some of this: https://www.mcmaster.com/cushioned-round-grip
To slide over thunderhex. Very dense and grippy on the ball. Not very thick, so not sure about longevity if you hang it outside the frame perimeter
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Dumb question: What about those handle grips in the Black Tote from KOP?
We bought some of this to try from McMaster: https://www.mcmaster.com/5872k35 it was super grippy to the point it started picking up random dust and grit from the shop pretty fast. My one complaint was that I couldnt quite get all the heat shrink wrinkles to go away (if anyone has advice for that I would love to hear it).
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See if you can find someone in your area who builds model aircraft, and ask them to help–and bring their iron. There are irons for heat-shrinking model aircraft covering to the aircraft. Smooth down, hit with a heat gun. Use the iron to chase bubbles/wrinkles to an un-smoothed area. Repeat. If you get a particularly pesky bubble, pop it with the tip of an Exacto and iron again.
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I thought about letting one ball get grungy just to see how it might perform in game.
I’ll definitely try that.
That got me thinking so I looked around and found this stuff on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07FSM3ZC6/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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