Le pro milk duds

dirtypool40

dirtypool40

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Why don't we see "Milk Duds" made starting with good ole' Le Pro tips?

I LOVE the PING I get out of an (admittedly rare) good LePro. If the whole "dunk and clamp" process adds consistency and juiciness, this might be a great tip!

I like the effect of my Elk Master based milk duds, but the hit is just too... "light".

Anyone ever try it with LePros??

Thanks?
 
dirtypool40 said:
Why don't we see "Milk Duds" made starting with good ole' Le Pro tips?

I LOVE the PING I get out of an (admittedly rare) good LePro. If the whole "dunk and clamp" process adds consistency and juiciness, this might be a great tip!

I like the effect of my Elk Master based milk duds, but the hit is just too... "light".

Anyone ever try it with LePros??

Thanks?
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It probably wont work on a LePro....thats a much harder, much more solid tip than an elkmaster....I just don't think it would soak it up...if one were to try it tho I'm sure the milk would have to be very hot or boiling or something to open up the tip to let the collagen in.

But its sort of pointless tho, you do that with elkmasters b/c some feel like your getting more grip on the ball with the softer tip...it just doesn't have the spine to hold up. Le-pros already hold up just fine they are really hard, but i don't know of anything much less milk dudding it that is going to give a le-pro that grip of the elkmaster. A triangle would probably be the most solid tip you could try that on since its sort of inbetween the two IMOP.

hope that makes sense,
Grey GHost
 
Lepros are sealed all around so you would not get consistent penetration.
 
ratcues said:
Lepros are sealed all around so you would not get consistent penetration.
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Agreed, I would have to sand the chocolaty coating off first.


greyghost said:
It probably wont work on a LePro....thats a much harder, much more solid tip than an elkmaster....I just don't think it would soak it up...if one were to try it tho I'm sure the milk would have to be very hot or boiling or something to open up the tip to let the collagen in.

But its sort of pointless tho, you do that with elkmasters b/c some feel like your getting more grip on the ball with the softer tip...it just doesn't have the spine to hold up. Le-pros already hold up just fine they are really hard, but i don't know of anything much less milk dudding it that is going to give a le-pro that grip of the elkmaster. A triangle would probably be the most solid tip you could try that on since its sort of inbetween the two IMOP.

hope that makes sense,
Grey GHost
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Good points, all. Triangles are a more porous tip, but no matter how many ringing endorsements I hear, many from people I respect I still HATE the way a triangle hits!! Through some magical process the fine people at triangle were able to capture all the worst qualities of a wad of stale cardboard. :mad:

"Back in the day" we used to soak and bake Lepros, in water, even once in iodine. I never measured how much they puffed up (soaking up the solution), but holy schnikeys did they come out hard.

I'm not looking for a really hard tip, just a solid, consistent, grippier lepro.

I am wondering (hoping?) if I sand the coating off, soak / lightly cook them to get them to absorb some milk, then dry them in a vice like the Elk Duds if I'll get something usable.

only one way to find out....
 
ratcues said:
Lepros are sealed all around so you would not get consistent penetration.
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I formally hire you as my editor Ryan!

Its like watching an overdubbed asian movie in english....my lips keep moving but your done explaining lmao. My girl says I talk in triangles 3points that all tie in together lol.

you see the above paragraph said the same thing 3 times...but you REALLY get the point after its read in its entirety.:eek:;)

az cue werido,
Grey Ghost
 
Give it a shot!!! See what happens and report back with the results! You may have the next great discovery!!!
 
tsp&b said:
Give it a shot!!! See what happens and report back with the results! You may have the next great discovery!!!
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Thanks, will do!

My thumb nail sketch idea is to sand them off, measure them, soak them, see how much they "grew" then clamp them back down to roughly where they started, so I don't make them any harder, just grippier.

who knows? :grinning-moose:
 
I tried making some duds from Lepro tips. And as Ryan & others have said, you have to sand all of the coated area off. I tried it with 6 lepro tips & thats about as far as I ever wanna go with lepro duds again myself, theres just too much work involved.
 
dirtypool40 said:
Agreed, I would have to sand the chocolaty coating off first.




Good points, all. Triangles are a more porous tip, but no matter how many ringing endorsements I hear, many from people I respect I still HATE the way a triangle hits!! Through some magical process the fine people at triangle were able to capture all the worst qualities of a wad of stale cardboard. :mad:

"Back in the day" we used to soak and bake Lepros, in water, even once in iodine. I never measured how much they puffed up (soaking up the solution), but holy schnikeys did they come out hard.

I'm not looking for a really hard tip, just a solid, consistent, grippier lepro.

I am wondering (hoping?) if I sand the coating off, soak / lightly cook them to get them to absorb some milk, then dry them in a vice like the Elk Duds if I'll get something usable.

only one way to find out....
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IMHO - what you want is an old Champion. Be prepaired to pay thru the nose.

Dale
 
dirtypool40 said:
Thanks, will do!

My thumb nail sketch idea is to sand them off, measure them, soak them, see how much they "grew" then clamp them back down to roughly where they started, so I don't make them any harder, just grippier.

who knows? :grinning-moose:
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Tho I respect the idea of 'never say never' - IMHO that process
will not result in a tip with any increased gripage.

The whole milk dud movement is designed to make
Elk Masters more firm - not more grippy.

Dale
 
That's what Donnie Anderson used to sell as the Black Jacque tips. He'd soak them in something that disolved the coating. Soaked them in milk for a day or so, then soaked them in black shoe dye before wrapping them up in tin foil and baking them in the oven, at a low temp to dry them out. Or at least, so I'm told. He sold a shit load of them
 
I've soaked Triangles, LePros, and Elk Masters and personally, I think it is not worth the trouble. In my experience, some of those tips get crumbly during machining, and some turn into a somewhat spongy texture. A customer of mine that likes LePros asks me to compress it in a vice without the milk. It works just fine.

dirtypool40 said:
Why don't we see "Milk Duds" made starting with good ole' Le Pro tips?

I LOVE the PING I get out of an (admittedly rare) good LePro. If the whole "dunk and clamp" process adds consistency and juiciness, this might be a great tip!

I like the effect of my Elk Master based milk duds, but the hit is just too... "light".

Anyone ever try it with LePros??

Thanks?
Click to expand...
 
greyghost said:
It probably wont work on a LePro....thats a much harder, much more solid tip than an elkmaster....I just don't think it would soak it up...if one were to try it tho I'm sure the milk would have to be very hot or boiling or something to open up the tip to let the collagen in.

But its sort of pointless tho, you do that with elkmasters b/c some feel like your getting more grip on the ball with the softer tip...it just doesn't have the spine to hold up. Le-pros already hold up just fine they are really hard, but i don't know of anything much less milk dudding it that is going to give a le-pro that grip of the elkmaster. A triangle would probably be the most solid tip you could try that on since its sort of inbetween the two IMOP.

hope that makes sense,
Grey GHost
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you have to sand off the coating on the bottom top and/or sides first
 
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