What's the best slide puck material???

[worldwide]

how come theres no poll option for a cat duct taped to my hand

i voted other

[AGENT WD-40]

Here are my experiences:

UHMW: Slides very good. Lasts a very long time (Same pucks for months, sliding at least 3 times a week).
Oil Impregnated UHMW: Lasts not quite as long as the regular, but slides just as good if not better.
Corian: N/A. Have not used yet.
Delrin: Slickest plastic I have ever used. Wears fast though. Have seen the Gravity pucks demolished in 2-3 sessions (But keep in mind, our slide sessions are about 7-8 hours and involve turns which require the glove down at all times)
Cutting Board: Great for starting out. Slides OK. Pretty sticky on some surfaces. Wears the fastest.
Polycarbonate: The Lush stock pucks. Slides incredibly good on certain surfaces, but very sticky on others. Lasts forever. Finger pieces (Made from recycled kayaks) slide like ice.

[DB.Rider]

What is exacly UHMW ?

[mcgoon]

What is exacly UHMW ?

The internet negates the need for this type of question......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHMW

[shapeshifter]

in the past i've been able to combine two dissimilar but very slippery materials to form a slippery, durable and lightweight puck.

[tbone16]

corian wears noticeably different on different pavement types, i still think its the best way to go, slides great relatively easy to obtain and in most cases free

Your right. Its seems wheels do too. Some rough parking garages will eat right through corian and hard wheels. I have had sessions that would have destroyed a cutting board puck, and big corian palm puck has just got a small glaze burned off. but i noticed in a praking garage with rough surface, after two weak ass slides at super low speeds, i could smell and see my corian was wearing realy fast, and my sergios.

[OrangePie]

Plexiglass works for me.

[Crappysurfer]

i prefer the 2x2 corian pieces, the bigger stuff tends to break in half, but it still isnt a problem for me because the velcro holds the 2 pieces together

and umhw sometimes seems to grip during 100+ft slides at high temp in the summer, definetely not a good feeling, especially thinking about the speed you need to go to do those slides

[doctor worm]

i prefer the 2x2 corian pieces, the bigger stuff tends to break in half, but it still isnt a problem for me because the velcro holds the 2 pieces together

and umhw sometimes seems to grip during 100+ft slides at high temp in the summer, definetely not a good feeling, especially thinking about the speed you need to go to do those slides

i think you are thinking of polycarbonate, not uhmw because thats what those pucks were that you complained of "sticking"

i use corian, mainly because i have access to tons of it for free. i have cracked 2 pucks and worn out like 6 pucks, but still have approx 20 left, i use the large pucks on the palm, cut into a 100mm circle

[wilder]

UHMW is my vote. i get it inch thick at TAP plastics. ive only tried cutting board (felt the same, but cant get it as thick) and corian. corian sucks my balls, regularly. its way to noisy and heavy, and wears down like a popsicle..

[charlietidd]

Delrin gets my vote

i scored a box of it for 10 bucks on ebay, took some time to round the edges and its been working great, no significant wear and slides fast

[Fathom1269]

titanium pucks are the way to go they make cool sparks when you slide

[Anton Milioti]

corian wears noticeably different on different pavement types, i still think its the best way to go, slides great relatively easy to obtain and in most cases free

true

i recently snagged some free 2x2 corian samples at home depot and i use em for fingerless slide gloves. i love corian but UMHW is what i use and i think it slides like butter.

my friend got the gravity delrin gloves and i liked the pucks alot. i felt that they were damn near frictionless. for anyone that doesn't feel like making their own set of gloves buy the new gravitys. such a gigantic improvement from their old gloves!

[Crappysurfer]

gravity gloves will always suck!!

im still a firm believer that making your own gloves is a rite of passage

[Anton Milioti]

gravity gloves will always suck!!

im still a firm believer that making your own gloves is a rite of passage

lol

youd be suprised on how much gravity has improved their glove. fingers are way tougher than the old ones and the delrin is awsome. they also use a tougher velcro than the old ones.


but i do agree with you about the whole making your own slider glove thing (even though i ordered some timeships )

making your own gloves is awsome because you can make em anyway you want that feels comfortable. i just cant get that right for myself. but i tried sexualharrison's timeship tracers in prospect park and i thought they fit my style way better than my home made gloves.

[doctor worm]

lol

youd be suprised on how much gravity has improved their glove. fingers are way tougher than the old ones and the delrin is awsome. they also use a tougher velcro than the old ones.


but i do agree with you about the whole making your own slider glove thing (even though i ordered some timeships )

making your own gloves is awsome because you can make em anyway you want that feels comfortable. i just cant get that right for myself. but i tried sexualharrison's timeship tracers in prospect park and i thought they fit my style way better than my home made gloves.

tracers are speedboard oriented, i wouldnt mind owning a pair for speedboarding, but large main pucks rule trick sliding.

[Anton Milioti]

tracers are speedboard oriented, i wouldnt mind owning a pair for speedboarding, but large main pucks rule trick sliding.

well harrison replaced the regular timeship pucks with a larger circular puck. im gonna probably cut my own pucks for it when i get them.

[D.T.]

UHMW is short for Ultra High Molecular Weight.

I have not used corian or oil based uhmw yet. However I have used many types of poloyethelene (cutting board), polycarbonate or if you prefer to call it by its name brand name - Lexan (like in race car windows and rear deck lids), wood, og French style mix of gravel and road epoxy, delrin, and UHMW.

I have spent some time speaking with raw material wholesalers and maufacturers and learned this.

UHMW will out last all materials listed above, It is the slickest of what i have tried and is far cheaper in the long run if you count time wasted on constantly remaking or reattaching gloves and pucks. I can make a set in less than 15 minutes if i have the proper tools (10-12 minutes is waiting for the contact cement to set up)

Here are some tips from the plastic experts:

Stay away from Black plastic, it is the remenants of the clean plastic. Remenants are grouped together, remelted, and a black dye is added to cover up imperfections. It is slightly cheaper.

I take safety very seriously and my slide gloves are more important to me than my helmet. You dont save much over the seconds so why bother?

If you go to a plastic wholesaler in your community they will likely have remenants for a buck or two that will be just about puck size or bigger.

Crappysurfer 2 mentioned you can pick up corian samples for free from home depot, so you should never be without plastic. keep a back up set or some extra contact cement handy in case a puck comes off.

Sometimes a faster wearing material can come in handy, since it tends to slow you down faster. Such as polyethelene and the og euro style. this is practical for high speed drifting applications where you must slow down a lot to make a corner.

For freestyle slide gloves I run extra thick pucks and thinner ones for racing.

I've also played with angled pucks that are fatter on the palm since i personally put the majority of my weight on the bottom of the palm.



UHMW isnt that much more expensive than other materials. In fact, its cheap. Skate companies won't likely use it in their slide gloves for awhile for good reason. It will likely out last the gloves. If you have pucks that wear out really quick, then its good business to to sell replacement pucks.

think about it.

[Steve D.]

titanium pucks are the way to go they make cool sparks when you slide

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[D.T.]

I was at Michael's house with his crew when he made Sergio his first pair of sliders with flindts in them. He drilled out very small holes and stuck the flindts in after spraying it with spray adheisive. if i remember correctly, it was several years ago and the gloves werent the only things that were lit.