ouch, I'm sorry about thatthanks for your answer!
. It took me less than 5 mins to cap one of my racquet.
OK, I can understand the weight aspect - but there are myriad ways of accomplishing the same thing without going to the lengths mentioned here, aren't there? You could put lead tape under the bumper guard, for example, though I guess that doesn't add the weight all the way around the head. I don't see the aesthetic part of the equation being that significant, but, if you're a constant tinkerer who wants to have a stick that is unique, I'm sure that matters. The stiffness bit, though, seems a trifle far-fetched. But I suppose if you believe it works, then it does.
Still, thanks for the explanation.
Yes, I've done it and the Dremel (with the proper bit) works the best
It seems the frame hole is just a hair too small for the grommet nib. It happens as sometimes the frames (from newer models) have slightly different sized frame holes in various locations.
I didn't say I was right to feel that way - just that the importance of all this was/is lost on me. I was yearning for an explanation, and, instead, I get cheek. I should have known better.Was responding more toward the attitude than the question
(I did get my explanation in the end. It still all seems a trifle silly to me, though - like debating about adding lead tape to a vibration damper, or the advantages gained by using 18-gauge monofilament nylon on the top and bottom cross strings only. If you think it makes a difference, good for you. I kinda doubt it does, but that's just me. So I guess you were right about my attitude after all, eh?)How do you know my opinion is unfounded? And I don't think the question was "dumb" at all. Can you prove that the caps make a difference in how your frames play? Legitimately? If not, your opinion is just as "unfounded" as mine. I had several Kneissls with the spoiler thing, which covered up the stringing groove, and having that piece on there made not one identifiable bit of difference in how the frame played. None. If it works for you, great. More power to you. Obviously, you're not alone. Enjoy your hours laboring over a hot glue gun and a smoking Dremel; I'll be on court, playing.
I didn't say I was right to feel that way - just that the importance of all this was/is lost on me. I was yearning for an explanation, and, instead, I get cheek. I should have known better.
Gee whiz. I was genuinely interested in a legitimate explanation of this whole capping thing, despite my skepticism about it - and I get you telling me to go away. Yes, I am ignorant about how capping really can affect a frame - hence my question. If I wasn't curious, I wouldn't have bothered to ask. As for your comments, weight and balance can be changed by adding lead weight - which seems a lot easier than doing what you guys are talking about. The stiffness thing seems like it would be negligible to me. But I was looking for someone to give me some substance, not just "It really does make a difference, and you're a moron if you don't understand that." If you think I'm just looking to be disruptive, you are very wrong. But you look like you just want to pick a fight, so maybe I'll just gve up on asking.
Thanks for an actual response to my query, without all the hostility. I appreciate your honesty about the "magic wand" aspect, because I think the individual nature of tennis makes us all susceptible to that kind of thinking. (And the fact that it looks cool does matter, at least psychologically, as is evidenced by all the threads on here about paint jobs and frame graphics.)
They are questions. Hence the question marks at the end. Yeah, I'm skeptical. But I'm asking because I want to have someone prove my skepticism wrong. Why be so hostile?
here is a pic of an uncapped and a capped liquidmetal radical, you can see that the grommets end in relatively the same place, the microgel grommets are just a few millimeters longer (yes millimeters)
here is a pic of the grommet strips ending for i.prestige grommets, FXP prestige grommets (the non shiny orange one), and microgel grommets, the i.prestige and microgel grommets are both on liquidmetal radicals, and the FXP prestige grommets are on a FXP radical
here is a pic of the sides of the rackets, note they are not all lined up
