Will Spinmax be affected by the latest ITTF Annoucement on VOCs in glue and within the rubber?
Spinmax Red uses heptane as it’s main solvent, which is a VOC and is the same one commonly used in many table tennis glues. However when used to simply wipe the rubber surface with Spinmax Red, the VOC would evaporate almost immediately, and once this has happened, the bat would be perfectly legal. It has been estimated that rubbers glued onto a bat with glues containing VOCs, take about 3 days before all the vapours have evaporated. So the time taken for Spinmax red to evaporate from the surface of the rubber would be a tiny fraction of this. Spinmax Aqueous is 100% VOC free as it’s water based, so there will be no issues at all for this one.
