The major difference between the newer urethanes and the old school ones is mostly the core.. when we were working on the original desperado we put one of the old school urethane covers on the ball (I cannot mention the actual ball name the cover was used on before!) and it literaly hooked at your feet. The only differnce between the original ball, which would not hook much on modern oil patterns, and the ball we were testing, was the core, and yet the difference in reaction was huge. Remember that the resin additive in reactive balls is made to make the ball skid more in oil and gip in the dry, so remove that and the ball hooks in the heads!
With the original Desperado we wanted to keep the core quite dynamic, so we looked to silicon to reduce the cover strength enough.
With the Desperado LE we have done away with the silicon, increased the RG, reduced the differential and MB differential. We also added a very small amount of resin.. just enough to allow the ball to hold a shine, and give the ball that little extra help through the heads, but without taking away from the urethane reaction once the balls comes off the end of the pattern. The quantity of resin in the Desperado LE is just 20% of that in the Blackout cover, for example.
We would again stress that both Desperados are designed for short oil sport patterns, and not light oil.. While the Desperado LE can be polished to give more skid, it is best kept for short oil patterns that have good head oil.
Ryan
PS, I like the "Le Desperado" idea
Ryan Press - Seismic Staff Member
Edited by RyanRPS on 24/09/2011 at 1:21 PM
