omitting some tension pulls in the throat of the racquet

[Thomas O'Kane]

I've seen videos on You Tube and I know from personal experience and practice with my drop-pull stringer that there are times where you need to pull the main strings at the throat with the string coming through the grommet and laying or dragging across the throat frame of the racket. Depending on the string and tension pull, couldn't this harm the paint job on the racquet? Could a solution be to not pull for that grommet at the throat, and just pull tension once you route the string back up to the head of the racket, thus avoiding the pull at the throat? If you understand what I mean so far, would it make sense then to pull at the head under more tension to compensate, or would a pull at normal tension, say 53lbs, be able to adequately pull BOTH lines to the desired tension? Thank all.

 

[Irvin]

I doubt it will harm the racket at all.

 

[Chappy]

Depending on the height of the your tension head/gripper would it rub less going under the throat? My gripper is lower than the racquet so this works well. Routing the string back to the top will get you 1/2 tension on both strings.

 

[Irvin]

Depending on the height of the your tension head/gripper would it rub less going under the throat? My gripper is lower than the racquet so this works well. Routing the string back to the top will get you 1/2 tension on both strings.

You only get half tension if you are pulling both string from the same end at the same time. If you're only pulling on one string it will have full reference tension where the other does not but there is a way to even them out.

 

[Thomas O'Kane]

Thanks for the reply and the video. I do like how the stringer in the vid pulled some extra tension by manually adjusting and stretching the strings to even them or load balance them, if you will. Thanks.

 

[Thomas O'Kane]

And I cannot go below. The Klippermate that I have is dead even with the racquet head. What do you expect for $80.00 on ****!

 

[lew750]

And I cannot go below. The Klippermate that I have is dead even with the racquet head. What do you expect for $80.00 on ****!

I strung a lot of rackets with my old Klippermate.

 

[tennytive]

I was wondering if the string rubbing across the racket by going over the frame would eventually show wear marks too. I was thinking of using Frog tape over that section, but as Irvin says now and told me back then, it won't harm the racket at all. I used the tape once, then realized it was unnecessary.

You're good to go.

 

[Rysty]

I have seen damaged paintjobs because of that reason. I use an old credit card (plastic, slippery) between the string and the frame.

 

[struggle]

Don't mess with all that crap. Just string the racket.

It's just part of the "deal".

 

[tennisfu]

I've strung thousands of racquets with a prince neos which has the same issue and I've never had marks show up on the throat so I'd say your good to go

 

[eelhc]

You only get half tension if you are pulling both string from the same end at the same time. If you're only pulling on one string it will have full reference tension where the other does not but there is a way to even them out.

Yep... If one follows the instructions that come with Gamma/Klippermate floating clamp dropweight machines, the center mains will be lower than the set tension.

 

[Rabbit]

I was wondering if the string rubbing across the racket by going over the frame would eventually show wear marks too. I was thinking of using Frog tape over that section, but as Irvin says now and told me back then, it won't harm the racket at all. I used the tape once, then realized it was unnecessary.

You're good to go.

You are good to go. But, I will tell you that I have strung racquets that were missing paint at that exact point. They were Babolat APDs and all belonged to the same player. She was a pro and playing in a WTA tournament. Every one of her APDs had a missing stripe of paint on both sides of the racquet and both sides of the throat at the point where the string crossed it. I have never before or since seen that. I might also add that she went through 2-3 racquets a day. She didn't get gear, like the highly ranked players, several times a year, so her frames had been strung probably thousands of times.

You don't have a problem, but it can happen!

 

[M Pillai]

I'm not yet an expert on stringing... but I always find myself that the last cross on the throat is a bit loose for me, but the tie off of crosses keeps it very localized to the area of stringbed I never use.

 

[eelhc]

I'm not yet an expert on stringing... but I always find myself that the last cross on the throat is a bit loose for me, but the tie off of crosses keeps it very localized to the area of stringbed I never use.

Even if there were no tension loss on tie-off, the outside crosses and mains do not have strings on both sides and the string spacing wider on the edges of the frame so it will seem a little looser when compared to the center mains/crosses.