Hi Everyone
I attempting my first string job on an alpha pioneer dc plus. I am using forten sweet 17 on a Dunlop AG 300 4d 16x19. After some fumbles I got the mains done. However i am having some challenges with the starting knot on the crosses. Stupidly i stripped the old strings out of the racket before studying the implementation. Anyway, using a starting clamp i got the first 4 or so crosses strung successfully. I was following Yulitle's youtube video and he then tensions the loose end, removes the starting clamp and moves up a fixed clamp on the inside of the racket. That all went fine. However, when I determine the grommet to use to tie off on, ie, the grommet I need to feed the loose end of the string into it appears to be the grommet right beside the one that I started feeding the string into when i started the crosses. I determined this based on the size of the hole on the outside of the head guard and the klippermate site which posted the crosses starting on 8T and the tie off on 7T for this particular racquet. This creates a situation where there is not enough room to tie off the knot directly against the grommet because the first cross is already so close to said grommet. So the only thing I could think off was to do the tie off on the other side of the first cross, ie. the knot is then not directly against the grommet but rather against the first cross. Is this right? I am thinking not, but i'm not sure what else to do as none of the other holes are large enough to accommodate two strings. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies up front if I have some terminology wrong.
thanks
mike
I attempting my first string job on an alpha pioneer dc plus. I am using forten sweet 17 on a Dunlop AG 300 4d 16x19. After some fumbles I got the mains done. However i am having some challenges with the starting knot on the crosses. Stupidly i stripped the old strings out of the racket before studying the implementation. Anyway, using a starting clamp i got the first 4 or so crosses strung successfully. I was following Yulitle's youtube video and he then tensions the loose end, removes the starting clamp and moves up a fixed clamp on the inside of the racket. That all went fine. However, when I determine the grommet to use to tie off on, ie, the grommet I need to feed the loose end of the string into it appears to be the grommet right beside the one that I started feeding the string into when i started the crosses. I determined this based on the size of the hole on the outside of the head guard and the klippermate site which posted the crosses starting on 8T and the tie off on 7T for this particular racquet. This creates a situation where there is not enough room to tie off the knot directly against the grommet because the first cross is already so close to said grommet. So the only thing I could think off was to do the tie off on the other side of the first cross, ie. the knot is then not directly against the grommet but rather against the first cross. Is this right? I am thinking not, but i'm not sure what else to do as none of the other holes are large enough to accommodate two strings. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies up front if I have some terminology wrong.
thanks
mike
