Chemical Reaction

[grandpahoo]

Friends,

I was just taking out a Black Hoosier bat of Joey Cora ,out of the bat tube and the bat was stuck in the tube. When the bat finally did come out, all the rubber from the end cap had MELTED on the bats end of barrell.


Be carefull gang, as this has never happened to me in 30 years of collecting.
Dennis

This just happened to my Albert Belle bat.

[AWA85]

Is this only happening to bat tubes with the black rubber cap on it?

[godwulf]

When I was a newbee collector, I put a couple of bats that I'd just gotten signed, in plastic tubes, in the trunk of my car, and left them there for a couple of hours. I live in Arizona, and it was Summer - not the best plan. The bats were unharmed, but I had to cut the tubes off of them.