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lol....anal.....took mine to the post office way back when Gaines....lol Does that mean I'm a good stringer? Not necessarily, but I do agree that good stringers an an anal lot. At least on the important points.....lol

I checked my new calibrator when I first got it over ten years ago and it was off by 7 pounds with 55-65 pounds of weight. I adjusted it and it's been money ever since. So I highly recommend you start there.

Don't forget to calibrate your calibrator first.

You don't necessarily have to cut the string on an angle to make a point, especially if you are heavy handed and really mash the grommet hole and string that's already in there. But I try to open the hole up only slightly or just enough to allow the string to pass through with a solid push. I...

Use the needle nose pliers to grab the string very near the end. Even soft string in a very short length can be pretty stiff. If you are careful with a thin but not too sharp awl you can slightly enlarge the path that the string needs to squeeze through. I have a tube of chapstick in my tray to...

We all know it doesn't stretch anywhere close to the foot range and that ever so small differences in stretch can make a lot of difference in the resulting total stringbed tension. Let's see if we can wrap our minds around this by sticking with the hub and quarter inch analogy. A person who is...

A string equalizes/stretches a little after it first reaches it's set tension. A constant pull machine takes up this extra slack while constantly applying the correct amount of pressure. There's not so much movement in the few seconds after it initially reaches full tension that a properly set...

But no thanks for me? I thought I was clear and helpful to someone new to lock out machines. Oh well shows you what I know.

Smooothone23, your last description of stringing with your drop weight machine is the definition of constant pull to many of us. Don't worry about the dispute about nomenclature, just understand the idea, as you seem to, and you will do fine. Also, FYI a drop weight machine is a constant pull...

I have one suggestion that I have never seen posted for lock-out users. Crank several times with a calibrator in place to hone the correct cranking speed/technique. I saw one guy cranking slowly sometimes and with a jerk at other times. I got him to test his cranking technique with a calibrator...

That depends a lot on technique and even on the string you are using. Roughly start at 5% to 10% and test from there.

A dropweight machine is what is known as "constant pull" which means that as you are lining up the string clamps it is constantly pulling tension on a string. A crank type machine is what is known as a "lock-out" which means that as soon as tension is reached a brake is set and no more pulling...

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Aside from being just a little smoother than my Star 3 clamps they seemingly don't mark the strings at all. With my Star 3 clamps, I have to tighten them just to the point where they leave small marks on the string or else they will slip. These marks are visible to the naked eye and can be felt...

A fixed (non-rotating) diablo also serves another useful purpose. It takes some of the pulling force instead of it all being applied to the string at the gripper. By spreading the force on the string this way it leads to less string deformation than if it is just held in the gripper alone.

I was looking at old Alpha information. Alpha has changed the specs on the Revo 4000. It now has the same table and base clamps as the Combo 910. Mid west Sports dot com has a great pic of the new version of the Revo 4000. TennisMachines dot com's pic is of the older version (as of today at least).

The two people who bought Eagnas machines on my recommendation both live in Michigan and are very happy with them. The major differences between the Combo 910 and the Revo 4000 to me are: The base: the 910 has a floor stand and a larger tool tray... the 4000 is a table top machine. The...

I really believe the Combo 910 is a quality machine. You could spend more and not get as much.

Hi, this is my first posting here but I have a little bit of experience with stringing. I'm a PTR certified tennis pro and I've had a Babolat Star 3 for over ten years. An Ektelon model H to which I added an Alpha Blu-DC table/clamps etc. was my first machine and I still own that machine as...