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I string for someone with a new 2023 Pure Aero.
Other day he brings me back the racquet I string and strings are snapped up at the top grommet around 12 o clock.
Luckily he had been playing it a month or two so I figured just regular wear and tear to some degree and maybe I over clamped it with the starting clamp plus didn’t use a spacer and it came back to bite. So I restring it using a spacer and far less pressure on the starting clamp.
He brings it back a week later with strings broken at the grommets around 1 o clock. So nowhere that I would have used a starting clamp at all.
so I take a really good look at the racquet, headguard and the strings. It’s clear he’s slicing the crap out of the racquet and wearing down the headguard. I got a decent high res pic I showed him of how thin some of the strings were that rode inside the grommet channel.
However, I play with this guy sometimes and he’s definitely not someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. He’s not just dragging his racquet along the ground. It seems odd to me that he’s doing something so out of line as to cause this string breakage in a mere 2 or 3 outings.
Have any other stringers noticed this issue with any particular racquets or the PA23?
I’m thinking I move down in gauge as to let the string sit deeper in the grommet channel or just order him new grommets every other string job if he keeps up the ground contact.
Thoughts, comments?
Other day he brings me back the racquet I string and strings are snapped up at the top grommet around 12 o clock.
Luckily he had been playing it a month or two so I figured just regular wear and tear to some degree and maybe I over clamped it with the starting clamp plus didn’t use a spacer and it came back to bite. So I restring it using a spacer and far less pressure on the starting clamp.
He brings it back a week later with strings broken at the grommets around 1 o clock. So nowhere that I would have used a starting clamp at all.
so I take a really good look at the racquet, headguard and the strings. It’s clear he’s slicing the crap out of the racquet and wearing down the headguard. I got a decent high res pic I showed him of how thin some of the strings were that rode inside the grommet channel.
However, I play with this guy sometimes and he’s definitely not someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. He’s not just dragging his racquet along the ground. It seems odd to me that he’s doing something so out of line as to cause this string breakage in a mere 2 or 3 outings.
Have any other stringers noticed this issue with any particular racquets or the PA23?
I’m thinking I move down in gauge as to let the string sit deeper in the grommet channel or just order him new grommets every other string job if he keeps up the ground contact.
Thoughts, comments?
