Tecnifibre aweful QC

[Casper777]

Wow that one is really huge

Juste got a Tecnifibre TF-X1 300

That was supposed to be my "easy" fun frame to play... a bit like a Pure Drive but I usually like TF feel and comfort...

This one is anounced with a SW of 323 on TW!

Did not use the matching for this one... huge mistake

Came at 303 gr unstrung... no big deal... didn't check the balance right away... strung up the frame with this stupidly heavy M8...

Measured the SW with my Briffidi.... 348!!!! Hahaha

Thing is that I played the frame before checking the SW and its marked already... but I was surprised because I didn't find the racket that easy to play with... I get it now LOL

This one will go to the bin right away. TF QC is really the worst I've seen. Each time I ordered TF with matching the specs were all over the place... TF40, tfight... and now this piece of c....p!!

25SW diff is a record!! French quality I suppose...

 

[Chairman3]

TF really is the new standard in poor QC.
People still talk like it's Wilson, but I feel they have gotten better.

TF though, is the reason matching services exist.
100 percent agree

 

[McLovin]

This one is anounced with a SW of 323 on TW!

While Tecnifibre has been notoriously bad as far as meeting specs go, you can’t complain about something that is not published. Swingweight values are provided by TW, not Tecnifibre, so whatever number it gets is “within spec”…

 

[Casper777]

While Tecnifibre has been notoriously bad as far as meeting specs go, you can’t complain about something that is not published. Swingweight values are provided by TW, not Tecnifibre, so whatever number it gets is “within spec”…

Except that the balance is completely off... 32.7 instead of 32 unstrung... that and the 3gr overweight and you get an unplayable frame

 

[snoflewis]

while i agree that TF's QC is pretty bad, TW's specs are not exactly the "standard" in the sense that their measurements are based on a few samples that they tested at a given time. TW may have gotten a low or high sw batch. i've also seen recent TF sticks that came in ~15-20pts lower in SW. makes you wonder if certain parts of the stick didn't get foam filled

 

[Trip]

Two items that need to be brought up here are 1) foam filling and 2) the level of paid-for QA/QC.

First, foam filling. AFAIK, almost all Tecnifibre's racquets are foam filled, and when you include this extra weight-adding process, you're essentially multiplying the chance of the frame being that much further off-spec, that much more often, versus a hollow-core layup (foam injection makes it that much harder to guarantee a certain mass amount and distribution). This is why you see stuff like the Blade Pro and RF97 -- both foam-filled -- with spec ranges that are just as crazy, if not more so, than the Tecnifibre stuff. This issue just looks worse for Tecnifibre, because such a high percentage of their total frames are foam-filled, where as with Wilson, for example, their percentage is far lower.

Now we get to QA/QC, for which I used "paid-for" as a precursor, because a good chunk of it is just that. My main examples would be Diadem, who foam-fill both the Elevate and Nova, and Solinco, who foam-fill the White Out. From all the evidence I've seen and personally measured in the last couple years, both seem to be churning out a higher percentage of more spec-adherent foam-filled frames than Tec or Wilson (usually even more on-spec than Wilson's non-foam-filled frames, which is even more embarrassing). Now, whether that's more so because Diadem and Solinco are willing to take more of a loss on product deemed unfit for sale than it is Tec/Wilson's lack QA/QC investment, is anyone's guess, but regardless, IMHO this appears to be mostly a case of "could, but won't" than anything else, and I think Tec (and Wilson) could both stand to gain in general by tightening up their standards, if not for the sake of lightening the load on all our landfills, aside from anything else.