Pulex rubber

Used a bit of pulex in my 14" wagtail the other day. Worked a dream straight away. Usually use razr red n think it has lost its quality a while back but still persevere with it. But now think might just use this instead.

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windowsurfer said:

Used a bit of pulex in my 14" wagtail the other day. Worked a dream straight away. Usually use razr red n think it has lost its quality a while back but still persevere with it. But now think might just use this instead.
 
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I swapped the opposite from pulex to razr red for the same reason about 3 years ago. I have noticed a drop off in quality of the razr red a couple of months ago. I was hoping it was just a bad batch. I’ve tried loads of different rubbers over the years and when razr reds on its game it can’t be beaten.


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I agree about the razr. It was really amazing when it came out.

Just found out the pulex doesnt last long on old frames unlike razr. But would say it works straight away without having to bed in, razr red was like that when it first came out.

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I mainly use soft rubbers and had gone off razr red but had a few in my box to use up. It's now been on my 14" liquidator for two weeks and still going strong.  I too have found it hit and miss but when it does work it's great.  I use Ettore, Moerman's pre cut rip off rubber and razr red. 

Use razr red mostly, not had any real issues luckily.

windowsurfer said:

Usually use razr red n think it has lost its quality a while back but still persevere with it

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In what way do you think it's lost it's quality? I had a really annoying phase with it where it just irritated me so much for being jumpy etc i gave up.  I find it'll easily dry up if you go too far from the bulk of your 'soap mountain' to get a missed bit but for being hard wearing it's great.  Literally some of the ettore and moerman soft rubber i change every couple of days, where as a good bit of razr red and it's in ages!

The glide used to be amazing. And when i put a new piece in seems like there is couple of small soap lines on one side, which is unacceptable, the other side not as bad. Had this on a couple of batches. Just seems to happen to often to be a conincidence.

Just takes the confidence away from working n takes tbe pleasure away.

I see another company, maybe cleaning spot has yellow rubber. Maybe same idea as razr.

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I think the razor red has dropped off as well, think I might go back to my unger soft rubber

Don't see anything wrong with Moreman and Unger soft rubber and look to pay £1 a foot.

I had originally bought 14" ettore for my wagtail, but wouldnt go in, bulb is a bit thicker, than other rubbers.  so would try unger.

Pulex gets slated but I have changed back to pulex after using razor red and find pulex so much better. In fact I can't get over how much better I find it than others, plus it's cheap ?

Totally agree with the drop off in razr red quality, its too hit and miss for me, can't rely on it anymore, leaves a lot of lines and drag marks even though I perfected my liquidator technique. The rubber just seems like its changed, not good enough

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I’m the same. I used pulex the best part of twenty years without any issues. Then all of a sudden one side always left lines and just wasn’t nice to use and sometimes felt rough on the glass. The faulty side even felt rough if you glided your fingers across it. At first I thought it was a bad batch and maybe the cutting tool needed replacing or sharpening. The quality never got better so I found razr red. I could not believe how much better this stuff was although a little harder it was perfect in every way and even though a lot more expensive it lasted forever. Now the same thing is happening with the razr red and one side is ok and the other is leaving loads of lines which gets worse with the age of the rubber. Are there any lads on here that work for facelift. If so maybe they can tell us what’s going on? If the next batch is the same then I’ll finding another option.


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