| Everyone knows that a composite and a wooden | | | | masts, airplane parts, car parts and the list of |
| bat to a lesser degree becomes a far more | | | | things made from polymer fiber composites |
| effective bat after 500-600 hits but not | | | | increases every day. |
| everyone understands why? Is there some magic | | | | The Problem |
| involved? Also, if a bat can get better with use is | | | | Composite bats made by this process using |
| is possible that the opposite is true? Is there | | | | graphite are fantastic but they do have one |
| some process by which a bat can become less | | | | shortcoming when they come off the assembly |
| effective for hitting balls? | | | | line. That is that the polymers and the fibers are |
| A Worse Bat | | | | in fact too solidly bound together reducing the |
| The truth is that there are a number of things | | | | "spring". The problem is that there is no point in |
| that can be done to a bat to make it worse such | | | | the process where this can be remedied without |
| as painting it with a triple thick coat of enamel. Its | | | | effecting the integrity of the overall process. |
| all hypothetical though, because there really is no | | | | A Better Process for a Better Bat |
| point in making a bat less effective at that it is | | | | By rolling a composite bat between to hard |
| used for. | | | | rummer wheels the bat is effectively broken in |
| Composites in Manufacturing | | | | by duplicating the same process that would take |
| The group of materials that are used in the | | | | place by hitting 500-600 balls. There is one notable |
| manufacture of a composite bat are used to | | | | difference though and that is that by doing it with |
| make numerous consumer items. Fibers of | | | | a rolling machine, the process is distributed evenly |
| graphite, carbon or glass, bound together by | | | | over the entire bat eliminating any weak or soft |
| polymers in a linear fashion and that is it. Sail boat | | | | spots. |