Alpha Apex and Prince Neos Owners:

[Gaines Hillix]

Originally Posted by Mike Cottrill

Gaines,
Did you compare with a Stringmeter?

Mike, no, I never had a chance to do a side by side comparison. It would be interesting to see the results of stringing the same racquet/stgring combination on a crank and an electronic CP machine to see it the difference would be detectable with a stringmeter.

[Mike Cottrill]

Usually I playing tennis right now, but it is raining here… Depending on how I string (leaving the weight on the string while I weave two ahead or not, I can see about 3 lbs loss from set tension and stringmeter reading. If I clamp faster I can see 4-5 lbs. Readings taken with prince synthetic 16,17,18. A friend pulls on main strings inside the frame while having the tension arm around 45 degrees from horizontal on the last main. He can see around 1 lb difference. The arm drops back around horizontal. I suppose from the readings there is about 3-5 lbs loss do to friction and string stretch. Not much string stretch once he is done with his method.

[rmiller774]

I am a total novice with the Prince Neos stringing machine. I believe I understand everything about it except the precise mounting of the frame on the machine. I follow the instructions which came with it but even so, the racquet seems "loose" and can be wiggled slightly after I complete the prescribed mounting instructions. I just can't get the frame "tight" to the machine as I could with my old Prince 200 with the crank extender. Can someone walk me through the mounting process perhaps in more detail than was supplied with the machine. I am missing something. Thank you. R. Miller

[fedex27]

Originally Posted by Gaines Hillix

Mike, no, I never had a chance to do a side by side comparison. It would be interesting to see the results of stringing the same racquet/stgring combination on a crank and an electronic CP machine to see it the difference would be detectable with a stringmeter.

next time you string on your wise turn the constant pull off for a string and look at the tension loss, it is unbelievable

[fedex27]

Originally Posted by rmiller774

I am a total novice with the Prince Neos stringing machine. I believe I understand everything about it except the precise mounting of the frame on the machine. I follow the instructions which came with it but even so, the racquet seems "loose" and can be wiggled slightly after I complete the prescribed mounting instructions. I just can't get the frame "tight" to the machine as I could with my old Prince 200 with the crank extender. Can someone walk me through the mounting process perhaps in more detail than was supplied with the machine. I am missing something. Thank you. R. Miller

when i mount on mine i use the small mount at the tip. i pull it into the interior mounts and clamp it down there. next i adjust the length for the throat to fit. i use the interiot mount there (that little black peice your supposed to put on) and lock out the the adijustor. then clamp it down. if you lost the black thing just pull the adjuster farther so it goes agasint the bar of the mount. when you wiggle the frame to make sure you did it right hole the turntable still, it make a noise when you wiggle the frame, that might be what your hearing

[Gaines Hillix]

Originally Posted by rmiller774

I am a total novice with the Prince Neos stringing machine. I believe I understand everything about it except the precise mounting of the frame on the machine. I follow the instructions which came with it but even so, the racquet seems "loose" and can be wiggled slightly after I complete the prescribed mounting instructions. I just can't get the frame "tight" to the machine as I could with my old Prince 200 with the crank extender. Can someone walk me through the mounting process perhaps in more detail than was supplied with the machine. I am missing something. Thank you. R. Miller

R. Miller, you might want to repost this under a new thread. There are a lot of Neos owners on this board and I am sure someone will step in and try to help if they see your query.

[rmiller774]

Thank you gstring21. I will try that. Appreciate it.

Gaines Hillix: I see your point and will repost to gain more guidance but I hope gstring has already solved my problem. Thank you both. R. Miller

[Mike Cottrill]

Originally Posted by gstring21

next time you string on your wise turn the constant pull off for a string and look at the tension loss, it is unbelievable

gstring21,

Any data for the difference from a stringmeter? ~5 lbs??
Thanks

[Mike Cottrill]

I wanted to let you know the results on my own racquet tension from a drop weight to the lockout on the Apex. Well, the string meter only goes up 70lbs. I set the tension at 72lbs. The string meter got to 70 and still had a little to go. So for all you out there that say you see 5% or even 10% difference, I did not see it here. This was prince synthetic Duro 17g. And yes, I checked the calibration of the machine. Same string meter that notices ~5lbs drop from a drop weight at this same tension. I was pleasantly surprised. Any ideas here? Granted this is only one result and I need a few more stringing jobs from the same frame type to get a good dataset.

[fedex27]

Originally Posted by Mike Cottrill

I wanted to let you know the results on my own racquet tension from a drop weight to the lockout on the Apex. Well, the string meter only goes up 70lbs. I set the tension at 72lbs. The string meter got to 70 and still had a little to go. So for all you out there that say you see 5% or even 10% difference, I did not see it here. This was prince synthetic Duro 17g. And yes, I checked the calibration of the machine. Same string meter that notices ~5lbs drop from a drop weight at this same tension. I was pleasantly surprised. Any ideas here? Granted this is only one result and I need a few more stringing jobs from the same frame type to get a good dataset.

i say buy the wise