So, its been a few months since I got the klippermate stringer and I have done over 20 stringing with it for myself and other people. Recently, I just got a Tourna stringmeter so I wanted to put Klippermate's claim that the accuracy of their machine is just as good as thousand dollar machines. First off, based on the stringmeter manual, it states you should take tensions of main strings and average them to test the accuracy after completely stringing the racket (exclude taking tension the tie offs of course). I strung a k6.1 95 16x18 at 51 lbs with a one piece usrsa atw pattern with all klippermate equipment plus a starting clamp using big hitter silver rough 17 strings. I strung all the tie offs about 4 lbs higher to compensate for the tension loss. The result from the stringmeter was all the main strings were around 51-53 lbs. The manual of the stringmeter also states that the crosses are about 30% looser and the cross strings were all around 35-37 lbs. I also did a two piece and got the same result. I am quite impressed with this machine as the tension is pretty accurate and uniformly distributed which are signs of a good stringing based off of what the stringmeter manual says. The tension of the string was also tested while the string was being tensioned on the dropweight and the reading on the stringmeter was pretty consistent maybe only off by 1 lb.
I also tested some other things like seeing what the effect of stringing crosses at a lower tension as oppose to stringing them at a higher tension than mains. I strung the mains at 53 lbs and the crosses at 51lbs on one racket. After testing with the stringmeter the mains were around 50-52 lbs. On another racket I did 51lbs for main and 55lbs for crosses, the mains were measured to be around 52-54 lbs. Conclusion is the crosses can slightly increase or decrease your initial main string's tension. Results were about the same on two piece and one piece stringing so I guess you don't need to use a two piece if you want to have different tension for mains and crosses as a one piece works out to have similar results in the tension department. When stringing both mains and crosses at the same tension of 51 lbs, the tension reading from the stringmeter was around 51lbs.
Overall, Klippermate is a pretty good stringer and the numbers speak for themselves. Only thing I wished it had were fixed clamps as I preferred just clamping one string at a time instead two using the flying clamps especially on crosses.
I also tested some other things like seeing what the effect of stringing crosses at a lower tension as oppose to stringing them at a higher tension than mains. I strung the mains at 53 lbs and the crosses at 51lbs on one racket. After testing with the stringmeter the mains were around 50-52 lbs. On another racket I did 51lbs for main and 55lbs for crosses, the mains were measured to be around 52-54 lbs. Conclusion is the crosses can slightly increase or decrease your initial main string's tension. Results were about the same on two piece and one piece stringing so I guess you don't need to use a two piece if you want to have different tension for mains and crosses as a one piece works out to have similar results in the tension department. When stringing both mains and crosses at the same tension of 51 lbs, the tension reading from the stringmeter was around 51lbs.
Overall, Klippermate is a pretty good stringer and the numbers speak for themselves. Only thing I wished it had were fixed clamps as I preferred just clamping one string at a time instead two using the flying clamps especially on crosses.
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