How Long Can You Safely Leave a Racquet on the stringer?

[Shroud]

Your imagination. Certainly if you feel the need to string kevlar at 80 pounds it wouldn't make sense to also want and expect some give too.

That's like saying you like punching granite boulders with a bit of leather behind them to soften the blow.

I was talking about the poster in the post I linked. Was he imagining it too? That's like saying that anyone who disagrees with me must be imagining things...

 

[Bambooman]

I was talking about the poster in the post I linked. Was he imagining it too? That's like saying that anyone who disagrees with me must be imagining things...

He did not make the claim you did.

 

[Shroud]

He did not make the claim you did.

He certainly did say it made things softer.

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/power-pads-and-full-poly.398089/#post-6139438

 

[Curtennis]

Shops will leave racquets half done for hours at a time. That said I can’t see how it takes you more than 15 minutes to do the mains. An hour for crosses fine, but once you’ve done 20 or so racquets you’ll be flying through mains.

 

[BallsOfFire]

I don't know if they still sell it or not, but their tension calibrator thingie was worthless.

Rest of the stuff you may be right about. Dont know what you paid, but I found a pair of industrial type shears at Lowe's for about $8 that work great

7 Euros. mine also works great.

 

[Bambooman]

He certainly did say it made things softer.

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/power-pads-and-full-poly.398089/#post-6139438

He added rubber. Do you know that a hard rubber ball bounces?

 

[Shroud]

He added rubber. Do you know that a hard rubber ball bounces?

ok I missed the rubber. So here is a vid that says the same thing and if you look at picts the pads are thick and the leather doesn't compress fully. Increased tension on the strings will cause the strings to move as the pads are pulled up and wrap around the string. You can see it in the vid when he pulls tension and they make a v. Hitting the ball just pulls more and the "V" gets bigger.

 

[Bambooman]

The compaction is constant. Leather does not bounce back to any degree.

He also uses gut mains. They don't need any help being powerful and bouncy from a hard piece of leather.

 

[naturalexponent]

Perhaps its a different mechanism. How do you account for it feeling softer?

The marginal increase in length of the mains from the spacing from the leather probably accounts for this, if present.

 

[Bambooman]

I would account for it by the compaction of the leather causing the string tension to drop in those strings. 6- 8 strings counts for a fair bit of the hitting surface.

 

[naturalexponent]

I would account for it by the compaction of the leather causing the string tension to drop in those strings. 6- 8 strings counts for a fair bit of the hitting surface.

Good point.