As the string stretches on a constant pull machine, the machine continues to pull. If I use a string with some stretch and I clamp off immediately after pulling verse waiting 20 seconds later to clamp, will I get a looser string bed? I am assuming that the string will continue to stretch by waiting and finally stop stretching.
Clamp time on a Constant Pull
- Thread starter Dane
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I agree with everything you say. You have to come to some point and just use the same technique all the time for consistency's sake. Stringing consistently is key.
You can confuse yourself by trying to string an elastic string "A" and trying to get the same tension as a stiff string "B". As a stringer, you have to be the consistent factor, and it is the qualities of strings that vary. Don't try to vary your techniques too much because you may not be able to reproduce them. It would be much easier to vary tensions. If you are waiting 20 seconds to clamp, do it all the time.
You can confuse yourself by trying to string an elastic string "A" and trying to get the same tension as a stiff string "B". As a stringer, you have to be the consistent factor, and it is the qualities of strings that vary. Don't try to vary your techniques too much because you may not be able to reproduce them. It would be much easier to vary tensions. If you are waiting 20 seconds to clamp, do it all the time.
To some degree if you are clamping quickly, it does take some of the constant pull out of the equation. However, with your electronic pull, it is pulling at the same rate all of the time, whereas, with cranks we may pull differently each time.
If you want the full benefits of a constant pull, you are going to have to wait a few seconds on each pull.
If you're trying to get the same result with your constant pull machine as you get with your crank machine, as far as the stringbed stiffness, the right way to do that is to just reduce the reference tension setting on the constant pull machine by possibly 5 to probably 10 percent.
You shouldn't have to wait 20 seconds for the string to stop stretching, it doesn't take that long (maybe 5 to 10 typically, especially if you've pre-stretched the string).
Anyway, the problem with doing what you're suggesting, clamping "immediately" with the constant pull machine, is that you'll get wildly inconsistent tension string to sting doing it that way.
The string stretches the most quickly right away, then continues to slow asymptotically until it essentially stops.
If you clamp it while it's in the process of rapidly stretching/changing (i.e., moving), you're going to let it stretch much differently each pull, depending on how "immediately" you clamp it, one second vs. two or three.
For consistency, you need to let the string essentially stabilize on every pull before you move on (clamp it).
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