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When using a lock out machine, would you string at lower tensions than when using the other two types of machine??
My knowledge is the exact opposite. If the drop weight is true constant pull, then the drop weight should result in a firmer string bed. Some say lock out tension should be 5% higher than true constant pull to make up for the lack of constant pull. My machine is drop weight constant pull and my experience is it results in tighter string beds when compared to a friends lock-out crank type machine.Here is how my tension went from drop weight to lockout to electric:
65 on a drop weight -> 58 on a lockout -> 55 on an electric
The feel of the string beds were:
softest (drop weight) -> firmer (lock out) -> firmest (electric)
NOTE: This is not a sleight to any type of machine
tension on any machine is just a number...find your number on that machine and stick with it
I've strung on a drop weight, a lockout,and now an electric. In my experience, while the drop weight may have exerted the right tension, the resultant string bed was softer than the other two because of the clamps, both floating. The machines were a Gamma drop weight with floating clamps, a Prince Neos, and a Prince Neos with a Wise tension head
Here is how my tension went from drop weight to lockout to electric:
65 on a drop weight -> 58 on a lockout -> 55 on an electric
The feel of the string beds were:
softest (drop weight) -> firmer (lock out) -> firmest (electric)
NOTE: This is not a sleight to any type of machine
Please see the bolded part of my post. A tensioning system is only as good as the clamps that hold the tension. In the case of the Gamma drop weight I had, it came with two Gamma floating clamps. They did not hold tension anywhere near as well as the fixed clamps on my Neos.My knowledge is the exact opposite. If the drop weight is true constant pull, then the drop weight should result in a firmer string bed. Some say lock out tension should be 5% higher than true constant pull to make up for the lack of constant pull. My machine is drop weight constant pull and my experience is it results in tighter string beds when compared to a friends lock-out crank type machine.
Some electrics are constant pull and some are not. But, an electric constant pull machine should give similar results to a drop weight constant pull.
some of the eagnas electric stringers are not true constant pull. the old mutual power electric machine was not constant pull either.I am unaware of any electric tensioner that is not constant pull. Can you provide examples?