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sunray
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I plan to buy a new stringer in the next week or so. I’m tossing around a Laserfibre MS200 tt or an Alpha Revo. Possibly a Gamma X-ST. I’ve been using my roommate’s Egnas Flex. We agree it’s a worthless piece of crap. It is so bad and the stupid thing cracked my racquet when one of the mounts snapped off the machine. I have to spring for my own machine and time for me to share with my roomie.
All the shops around use electric machines and I like how my racquets come out when they do them. But I string like 3 times a week and it gets to be too much. The guy said they only use constant pull. There is another forum of pro stringers and it’s like they all use it too. Some people here say it’s not important. But even when they say it’s not important, a lot of them use constant pull too. There must be something to it.
Here is my thinking. The shop guys say stay away from the cheap electric machines. I can’t afford $1000+ for a good one. I gather the Revo is a good machine but it is a crank up and not constant pull. The LaserFibre is a good machine for about $50 more and it is constant pull. The Gamma and the Laserfibre are the same price. For the same money I think I’d take the Laserfibre for the constant pull. Just my thinking.
I’d like to here from people who have used cranks and switched to the Laserfibre style and Laserfibre to crank style to get some opinions about comparing ease or difficulties of how they work. My only experience is the Egnas and an ATS Super Stringer. I don’t want to end up fighting with machines like that again.
All the shops around use electric machines and I like how my racquets come out when they do them. But I string like 3 times a week and it gets to be too much. The guy said they only use constant pull. There is another forum of pro stringers and it’s like they all use it too. Some people here say it’s not important. But even when they say it’s not important, a lot of them use constant pull too. There must be something to it.
Here is my thinking. The shop guys say stay away from the cheap electric machines. I can’t afford $1000+ for a good one. I gather the Revo is a good machine but it is a crank up and not constant pull. The LaserFibre is a good machine for about $50 more and it is constant pull. The Gamma and the Laserfibre are the same price. For the same money I think I’d take the Laserfibre for the constant pull. Just my thinking.
I’d like to here from people who have used cranks and switched to the Laserfibre style and Laserfibre to crank style to get some opinions about comparing ease or difficulties of how they work. My only experience is the Egnas and an ATS Super Stringer. I don’t want to end up fighting with machines like that again.