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Equipment => Your Kit => Topic started by: FattusCattus on March 30, 2017, 09:37:28 AM
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I've got a bunch of dusty and dirty, but unused grips.
Do people actually wash them, or does that cause them to deteriorate at all?
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Well i saw the author and the title and just had to look...
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I wash them with fairy liquid
it gets them clean but pretty much destroys the rubber
I don't care because i don't care how I look on the field, although my mum told me at 14 when I started playing ''you must always look like a cricketer''
Carlos(kit tramp)
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I always thought they were a single use , disposable item ? Or have i been wasting my money at the chemist all this time ? :D
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I like to unroll mine, give them a good rinse then a good soak in a mild detergent, after they have soaked for a good while I take them out and place them on a dry microfibre cloth. Then take some good quality water based oil and cover then inside and out with the oil. Then after they have a good coating of oil carefully roll them up. Ensure there are rolled nice and tight and put them in a zip lock bag to keep fresh for next time.
One tip I do have is to ensure they are completely unrolled past the serial number...
Oh sorry most of you may never have rolled them back that far to even know there was a serial number
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I wash them with fairy liquid
it gets them clean but pretty much destroys the rubber
I don't care because i don't care how I look on the field, although my mum told me at 14 when I started playing ''you must always look like a cricketer''
Carlos(kit tramp)
Agree with your mum when you look like a cricketer you feel and play like one.
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Oh sorry most of you may never have rolled them back that far to even know there was a serial number
Thats above the barcode for a free one on next purchase isnt it?
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Thats above the barcode for a free one on next purchase isnt it?
You know it big boy 😉
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Agree with your mum when you look like a cricketer you feel and play like one.
You've clearly never seen me play, I look like a proper cricketer in my pristine whites and with full matching gear. That illusion is shattered as soon as I have to actually do something on the pitch...
#AllTheGearNoIdea
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Then take some good quality water based oil and cover then inside and out with the oil. Then after they have a good coating of oil carefully roll them up. Ensure there are rolled nice and tight and put them in a zip lock bag to keep fresh for next time.
Linseed oil surely?
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Stick them in the machine and they come up lovely. Done it several times and doesn't have any detrimental effect on the rubber.
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You've clearly never seen me play, I look like a proper cricketer in my pristine whites and with full matching gear. That illusion is shattered as soon as I have to actually do something on the pitch...
#AllTheGearNoIdea
But just imagine what you would be like without all the gear....
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But just imagine what you would be like without all the gear....
He would be a big, pasty, naked guy - holding on to a bit of rubber!
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I sand mine!!!!
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I sand mine!!!!
Wouldn't that hurt ? :D
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Wouldn't that hurt ? :D
Only if you don't remove them first...
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Only if you don't remove them first...
Oh , good to know . :)