And the white seams are hand applied in the Indian sweatshop.. i didn't see how pressure was induced either in their process.

Lol good to hear you get similar KZfaq recommendations 😂 I saw that one too myself.

Same. We’re trapped in the same algorithm.

I didn’t see any workers wearing safety sandals in this video. 🤔

Ya they love to throw everything on the floor and pick it back up

I had the exact same experience. Large difference between the jobber cutting out the felt with a manual punch to the low-waste automated punch. It was also nice to see some respiratory protection in use.

Watched that video too, probably is the reason youtube recommended this video

What a difference ey

Yes!

All of us

lol, I watched tennis balls made in India I think it was. I wouldn't let my dog play with those.

The bat breakiest of bat breakers

I saw that too!

thats where I started to. down the rabbit hole I go!

Yup - One KZfaq channel leads to another! LoL

Impressive? Maybe. But they weren't making Penn quality balls. The inside of those tennis balls were 1 atmosphere, and are the equivalent of tennis balls you find in a pet store, for your dog to chase. It was a fun video to watch, but I doubt those balls are used in any serious tennis organization.

@@StefanMArndt they were cricket balls. Not sure if the bounce is supposed to be different but the rubber ball itself was different. People are crazy over cricket there so I’m sure they’re up to par for cricket playing on a grass pitch, maybe not tennis tho

Yes! Tt saves so much money, they didnt even have to pay a poor underage chineese girl to do the work!

I actually don't find the part that applies the felt itself that incredible, the folding action is not difficult to make at all, just a couple of pneumatic actuators on each side. I think the difficult part (and the reason this machine is the only one) is what we can't see: the felt must be applied with a tolerance of perhaps +/- 0,5mm, probably less than that even, the part that grabs the felt from the pack must not fail - not even once, grab just one at the time, and be precise about it. If it fails to grab the felt properly, there would be glue on the claws and next felt would stick to the claws. How the claws that apply the felt keep it in place and at the precise spot is also a mystery.

My wife did the job of this machine for 35 years, before they sent the whole plant from Phoenix overseas. Forced retirement. Still a great tennis ball, though, and the whole process is amazing to see.

Seems like you are putting a lot of thought in balls!

The trick is to put the factory in a country where you can get away with paying your "employees" (i.e. slaves) $1.50 a day.

@@htomerif lol The reply 7 YEARS later hehe. Still impressive to re-watch this video.

@@PanzerIV88 Its kind of like the "pig eating bacon" video for me. That was only 5 years ago though.

Balls are $3.00+ now

The valve would affect its bounce.

noted ...good point

Me too I want that kind of ball

Use a 'Tennis Ball Saver' device.

You can repressurize them. Buy the machine.

Tennis balls “die” or in other words wear out / go bad after a while of playing so they are thrown out or given to dogs. The demand is so high because of this required process of replacing the balls, because of the huge amounts of balls that tennis clubs buy and because almost all matches, whether high school or in a tournament are played with new balls.

Ever hear of the X Products XM42 Can Cannon?

he never said "per year"

Apparently you can buy some kind of pressure restorer to prevent the ball from losing its pressure, it's on sale on amazon, reviews are a bit mixed (4.3 / 5.0). I'm tempted to try it because it does seems very environment-friendly otherwise. I tend to keep my balls for a long time even if in theory, you are not really supposed to. At some point, the ball simply does not bounce enough for playing "normally" and you end up with the ball bouncing way lower than normally so a ball that you would normally be able to reach, now you can't. .... "Playing at a recreational level, a can of pressurised tennis balls will last anywhere between 1-4 weeks of light to moderate play. If used for competitive tennis, a pressurised set of tennis balls might last as little as 1-3 hours"

They just say that. It is dog hair from all the dogs they butcher for food.

@@greenlawnfarm5827 😂😂😂

Penn not pen lol

Yes! Imagine the lifespan of a poor chineese worker breathing in the rubber powders all day long.

@@greenlawnfarm5827 yes, not good at all. Still interesting though.

No.

They are not levels. The numbers are meant to distinguish your balls from those of others,

@@siddharthmohanty5731 I wasn't talking about the numbers on the balls. I just meant the various models from the same manafacturer.

@@marcusvaldes that's a question, that's a problem)

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gqyCY7yVq8y1pIE.html This is how cheap balls are made

Different surfaces...grass, clay, hardcourt

That depends on your "home"

:D

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Me tooooo!!!!!😂😂😂😂 What a contrast 😱

@@MC-pk6no 🤣🤣🤣

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what

I watched that video right before seeing this one. The other process doesn't pressurize the balls. It was really interesting to the difference in the two manufacturing processes.

what

That is so true

But he said they are “indestructible!” 😂😂

1:02 -1:04 no ppe white powder in eyes

Probably be 5 or 6 times as much if made in the U.S. Then some other company would make them in China. The market would stop buying the U.S. balls because they're no better and way more expensive and the U.S. company would go out of business... oh wait - that's exactly what happened already!

@@osrikking8785 continues to be part of the problem not the solution! Good day!

@@mr.noneyabidness So what's the solution? problems are easy to find - solutions are far more difficult!

@@osrikking8785 bring back manufacturing, put Americans back to work, pay a livable wage, and build America back to it once great economy. It's not a hard concept really. Look at the history of this country, it was thriving when we had made things. And feeding communist China handfuls af money will only ensure American grandkids will be speaking Chinese and slaving away for the overloards.

They used to be made in Arizona in the to 1980s. Why did Head decide to make them in China?

Head owns them.

+Johnny Chen Have you tried Robin Söderling tennis ball?

Oh you started tennis at a late age

lj.123 No

Slazengers are great for certain court types. But they don't hold well against Dunlops on other courts such as Clay. Dunlops dominate clay. Somehow their engineers have figured it out exactly.

Slazengers are perfect, then some Dunlops are okay. Wilson/Head/Babolat truly suck. Don't bounce straight, are dead and you can even see the seam. Shocking.

They used to be made right up the road from where I live in Jeanette Pennsylvania by Penn Racquet. But of course so some CEO could give himself a 200 million dollar bonus he took Mitch Romney's course in how to give yourself a 200 million dollar bonus by screwing over a bunch of your fellow countrymen and moving production overseas, so now an American icon in the tennis world is made in China by a bunch of people who've never seen a tennis court in their lives.