Microwaved tips?????

quadrary said:
never heard of that but as a leather worker i do know that if you soak leather and put it in the oven at 300 for a few minutes it gets very hard or you can put it in boiling water, that is how leather armour was made and it will get very very hard.
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This is some very good information, with that said I suspect you may have answered the OP's question.

thanks
 
never heard of that but as a leather worker i do know that if you soak leather and put it in the oven at 300 for a few minutes it gets very hard or you can put it in boiling water, that is how leather armour was made and it will get very very hard.
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Then, how come when cows and other leather animals get wet, they don't turn hard?
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Then, how come when cows and other leather animals get wet, they don't turn hard?
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the leather has to be tanned, it's the reaction with tanned leather that makes it turn hard. the stuff that's on a living animals isn't leather, it's living skin!
 
Tanned leather. Well, I know for a fact that cows spend a lot of time out in the sun. They must get a pretty good tan.

Thats probably why they're brown.
 
measureman said:
There is a person that comes into Hanks (home of $1 bottled water)we will call him "Vague Doug". He microwaved a Triangle tip for 10 seconds on high then installed it on a cue. I hit balls with it and it was a very hard hit. Now Triangles non microwaved are pretty hard to start with so I had no base line to compare it with.
Anybody ever heard of this or was this the actions of someone that is known to have too much time on their hands?
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This reminds me of a Polish Target Pistol.
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I nuked a dozen Triangle tips today for 30 seconds. Actually they didn't taste too bad either. We may have found a new finger food! :oink:
 
Never came to mind but not surprised that someone finally tried this. Back in the 70's I played softball tournaments all over the nation and we would take a couple of boxes of Blue Dot softballs and rub them with alcohol and bake them in the oven. It dried the leather cover and made them harder so they would travel farther when hit. I need to try this for some break tips.
 
Papa Red said:
Never came to mind but not surprised that someone finally tried this. Back in the 70's I played softball tournaments all over the nation and we would take a couple of boxes of Blue Dot softballs and rub them with alcohol and bake them in the oven. It dried the leather cover and made them harder so they would travel farther when hit. I need to try this for some break tips.
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hmm, never tried the alcohol trick. we just popped them in the microwave, they hardened right up and even shrank slightly. i remember you tell if a ball was cooked cause the seams were raised just a bit. we used to catch teams all the time trying to use a juices ball so we started soaking the other teams ball in water when we were in the dugout for our at bat, lol

Mike
 
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