This question has probably been posted, but I'll ask anyway.
While I was stringing last night (on a drop-weight), I had a thought. While stringing crosses, if your cross string isn't at some tension before actually pulling tension, are you losing a fair amount of tension due to increased friction between strings. It seems as though, particularly on a crank machine, when pulling tension on a string with some slack in it, the increased friction with the mains would add resistance to the spring/sensor, which would actually result in lower tension on your cross strings. However, if you relieved most of that friction before tensioning the string, it seems as though you would get closer to your set tension. This seems even more likely when stringing "one ahead," as there is often a lot of slack in the cross you pull tension on, unless you pull most of that out before tensioning the string. Maybe the difference is significant, or maybe it is negligible.
Does anyone have any good evidence to prove or shoot down this theory? (or a link to where this question has already been posted....)
While I was stringing last night (on a drop-weight), I had a thought. While stringing crosses, if your cross string isn't at some tension before actually pulling tension, are you losing a fair amount of tension due to increased friction between strings. It seems as though, particularly on a crank machine, when pulling tension on a string with some slack in it, the increased friction with the mains would add resistance to the spring/sensor, which would actually result in lower tension on your cross strings. However, if you relieved most of that friction before tensioning the string, it seems as though you would get closer to your set tension. This seems even more likely when stringing "one ahead," as there is often a lot of slack in the cross you pull tension on, unless you pull most of that out before tensioning the string. Maybe the difference is significant, or maybe it is negligible.
Does anyone have any good evidence to prove or shoot down this theory? (or a link to where this question has already been posted....)