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How to increase the spin on a cheap ping pong paddle

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Apr 4, 2010. 11:58 AMknektek says:

how much was your gas bill for that month?

Mar 12, 2010. 7:30 AMcpotoso says:

Nice, but does it really work? Won't the stickyness get quickly removed as gunk accumulates? (dust, etc)

Mar 13, 2010. 6:53 AMalitsa (author) says:

I think the dust problem is true of expensive paddles too.

But, I've found that baking the paddle made the red side tackier, but not the black side.

Hmm...

Apparently Olympic players straight up smear their paddles with Elmer's glue.
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1834439,00.html

Does that make this instructable moot?