Head Elite Pro (CAP)

[craniopath]

what is the suggested string tension range for this racquet?

retrowagen you wrote "Also, as with other "thinbeam" HEAD models, care must be taken when stringing, as the shape of the head can deform if strung hybrid or with varying tension between mains and crosses." do you mean prestige mid racquets by "thinbeam" Head models, I thought prestige mid are supposed to strung two piece. or is it ok to string two piece but with the same string and same tension?

[craniopath]

what is the suggested tension range for elite pro?

[vari0012]

Hi guys,

This is my first post in long time. I just found 2 mint head classic (elite pro and comp pro) with wrapper still on the grips. How do I post pictures?

Best regards,

William

[vari0012]

http://s1175.photobucket.com/albums/r639/vari0012/

[vsbabolat]

Originally Posted by vari0012

http://s1175.photobucket.com/albums/r639/vari0012/

You have a Elite Pro 600 with the Double Power Wedge. That is a very different frame to this Elite Pro.
Here is one of my Elite Pro:

[vari0012]

Thank you vsbabolat. Have you ever hit with either of wedge elite pro or the comp pro? I want to try and hit with them but feel bad to string these up. I use mg prestige mid as my main stick.

[jkm07]

Originally Posted by craniopath

retrowagen you wrote "Also, as with other "thinbeam" HEAD models, care must be taken when stringing, as the shape of the head can deform if strung hybrid or with varying tension between mains and crosses." do you mean prestige mid racquets by "thinbeam" Head models, I thought prestige mid are supposed to strung two piece. or is it ok to string two piece but with the same string and same tension?

I've been stringing my PC600s (both red and green/silver) and i.Prestige mids with two-piece hybrid stringing (Main-SPPP @ 53; cross-syn gut @ 5. I haven't had a problem with warping on my Klippermate. I have an Head Elite Pro coming in next week and I'm going to try it out with these same specs. We'll see how it goes...

Mounting is extremely important with Head racquets, even more so with a two-point mount like K-mate. Once the racquet is mounted I pull the vise bracket outwards just a bit and tighten the U-bolts with pliers. This should stabilize the racquet.

[craniopath]

I'm anxiously waiting for the results
best

[jkm07]

Originally Posted by craniopath

I'm anxiously waiting for the results
best

Just finished stringing the racquet with the same specs above (and TK52 instead of the white half-CAP). Everything turned out well!

[craniopath]

I have installed cap grommets on my elite pro and have it strung this week. I was expecting the cap grommets to be a perfect fit but to my surprise there is about a 2mm opening between the grommet strip and the body of the racquets all around the head. The sides are not flat but slightly concave, well hence the width of the grommet strip felt a little short and unperfect fit. Well I have never handled a prestige mid racquet but I expect this is not the case. I assume the grommet channel (?) of the elite pro is slightly deeper than prestige, well at least that could explain it.

Anyways I wonder whether this has been the experience of people who have capped their racquets.

I have it strung with mantis comfort synthetic(23k)/ forten sweet 16(22k). I haven't hit with it yet, fingers crossed for tomorrow, but have been playing around with a tennis ball at home and it makes a much fuller (thicker?) sound compared to my vantage 90, without a dampener. With wilson ying yang dampener elite pro makes a much more subtle sound, as if it is indifferent to the ball

[boinz]

what's the static weight of your fully CAP'ed Elite Pro? I've seen one that's over 360grams strung with syn gut and still on the old white bumper guards (and over grip)... making it heavier than a Prestige Pro of the same era.

[craniopath]

I have no idea, unfortunately I don't have a scale that is accurate enough. Dino has kindly shared the RDC output for his racquet, in the first post, have you seen it? Swingweight is not really that high. I thought cap first, trim later

[Tennis Man]

Originally Posted by craniopath

I have installed cap grommets on my elite pro and have it strung this week. I was expecting the cap grommets to be a perfect fit but to my surprise there is about a 2mm opening between the grommet strip and the body of the racquets all around the head. The sides are not flat but slightly concave, well hence the width of the grommet strip felt a little short and unperfect fit. Well I have never handled a prestige mid racquet but I expect this is not the case. I assume the grommet channel (?) of the elite pro is slightly deeper than prestige, well at least that could explain it.

Anyways I wonder whether this has been the experience of people who have capped their racquets.

I capped a few of them. I usually pre-fill the gap with lead tape. It worked for me.

[boinz]

I found a pair of Eilte Pros sometime back, one nicely CAPPed and the other still on original white bumpers and unstrung.
Somehow I never did enjoy playing with the Elite Pro that is CAPPed which I tot it is too heavy.
Well, the strings snapped finally... and I found some 6g of lead under the CAPs. After removing I managed to weigh the frame with CAPs. It is 350g unstrung! My other frame with the white bumper weighed 335g.... So CAPPing adds an additional 15g???
thats alot of weight to the head.

FYI, these CAP are TK52