It kills me that you say the different colors fly different. :thmbdown:
I am not interested in a company that cannot produce a consistent product. I want a disc that I can buy now or 3 years from now and that will fly the same. If the same run produces wild variation in stability, then the process is flawed.
Colorants should not affect plastic density or stiffness. The most likely cause of inconsistent molding is temperature of the plastic, the machine it is made on, or cooling too fast or slow.
I was about to buy a Rampage, thanks for saving me some money.
I'm not trying to derail the thread, but I felt that this was worth saying.
Inconsistency, at this point, is unfortunately a reality of the sport we play. The distance disc you use, the Nuke, is exactly that way. My bro in law throws Nukes, and has 5 in his bag, all that fly very differently.
Generally, with Discraft, Red and Pink fly the most overstable. But he has a flat green/chartreuse Z Nuke that is more OS than the green Forces I've thrown.
There's two issues we're dealing with:
1) Apparently, the pigment that's used to color disc golf discs is not a mass-neutral substance. Red and Pink discs are more overstable because the pigment used to get those colors contains Iron, (think rust color). So until someone finds a way to pigment discs with something other than what is used now, color-related differences in flight is an inevitability.
2) We're cheap. If it cost, say, $5 more per disc to have a better quality assurance program in place (programs/policies put in place to make the injection and cooling/curing process uniform) would you pay more? I would. But apparently the disc manufacturers feel that the majority of the market would not.
Would it cost $5 to input a QA program? I don't know. But of the many disc molders in our sport, ZERO have developed a process that provides the consistency you're looking for.
