Help with Centrix Stringing Machine

[shamaho]

Sir Irvin...

It's the drawback thing you mention ? You could've said so from the beggining

You talk about in Youtube under "managing drawback" right ?
video id 3WIEi_wrNo4

Thanks !

Originally Posted by Irvin

Swivel clamps have a post that slides up and down on the clamp (telescopic.)

The clamps have some play in them and when you you tension clamp your string and release tension the tension in the string wants to bend the clamp away from the tensioner. On the next pull that drawback is normally pulled out so it is not a problem but on the clast pull these is no way to get it out except to remove the play before your clamp by pressing the base toward the tensioner.

Because there is ply you have the ability to press the base past the point where all the play is eliminated. Then when you tighten the base it pulls the clamp straight again pulling a higher tension on the string.

[Irvin]

Well sort of mbut not exactly. Let me try to explain again. If you clamp the string under While it is being pulled the clamp is straight up and down. Take off the tensioner and the clamp leans to the left because of the string tension pulling it back. You can adjust for this by pushing the base toward the tensioner before locking the base so that the clamp is already leaning to the left before the tensioner is released. Push it too far and when you lock the base you will apply more tension to get the clamp base flat on the turntable rails.

[Hornet83]

Originally Posted by shamaho

Sir Irvin...

It's the drawback thing you mention ? You could've said so from the beggining

You talk about in Youtube under "managing drawback" right ?
video id 3WIEi_wrNo4

Thanks !

Hi shamaho

In this particular case is not the drawback, the drawback is recoverable once you pull the string again. As I said I bought my machine used, probably you won't have this problem in a brand new machine, the swivel clamp can go up and down to reach the stringbed and in my case the part of the clamp that allows that movement is a bit loose so that little bit of looseness can't be recovered. To counter this I must always clamp the string first and just give a gentle push on the clamp base, in the direction of the tensioner, before fixing it. As I said probably you won't have this problem in a new machine.

Cheers