See what I mean.......? I would be in the basement under the single hanging electrical wire with a 40 watt light bulb ( all I could afford because of buying so many sets and reels of strings) above me shining down flickering on and off as I mumble to myself "string just one more racquet and I can quit. This is my last one...." As I laugh in a low hysterical sleep deprived manner.
Sorry, I did not see this thread reply question until today. I use 48 lbs with the Dynamite. I used ZX at probably 55lbs. My gut mains are always at 58lbs no matter what the cross is strung at.
Not far from the truth for me, drive a 16 yr old car with a 25 yr old pickup in reserve. Spare bedroom is the tennis stringing, racket modding, gunsmithing, fishing gear storage & nap with the dogs on the futon room.
So it sounds like the best use of ZX is as a slippery/soft cross? Wouldn't it offer to much power against a gut main? I'm assuming against Kevlar, it helps provide softness and a slippery surface for the Kevlar to slide on? Or a smooth, stiff poly main?
Weird. No idea what will help the arm since its tough to find a softer string than zx...
Yeah i agree. Just saying though that gut/zx is a nice stringbed if you like a soft stringbed
sounds like you need to involve natural gut...
thx for ur input. never even tried gut; pricey stuff and as of now, I'm not stringing my own, so that would be a pricey move. I did hear the zyex pairs well with gut, polys, and kevlar, but polys and kevlar are outta the question due to elbow issues.
I'm feeling similarly regarding the price of testing with gut in the mains. I think I'll test gut with Cream for a cross. I may venture to try Sgut or Multi in the main at a higher tension and ZX in the cross to help it slide. But that's going to be a pretty far down the list of stringbeds to test.
You said it!
I think ZX will be a lot lower maintenance when I stop using it.
I played again last night with the above set-up. It still felt nice and didn't feel like either string appreciably dropped in tension, a depth control was still there. I'm still in the evaluation stage on this. It normally takes me abut 40 minutes to string a racquet. Without pre-stretching the zyex, I get much slower (about an hour) because of the slow pulls, and obviously unless I use a stopwatch I am going to lose consistency pulling that way. That said, manually prestretching also takes time and effort (possibly more than time and effort than the slow pull method).
Thats my guess.
You're probably right about ZX being low maintenance once you have it in the racquet. It's just taking me too many trials to find a method that makes it play nice and is repeatable. With other strings, I can always figure out if it works for me within 3 stringings.
How long are you leaving the ZX string in your racquets before you restring? Are you noticing any tension loss from when you start using the racquet until you start noticing arm pain?
Just seeing 67 # of string tension makes my arm and wrist hurt.
DT of 36 at this tension.
I think I'm seeing the light on string selections. I really, really like ZX the way I have it set up now. Once I figured out how to do it, it's not too much of a hassle. But I like my signature setup and Red Devil full bed just as much. And the Pro's Pro prices are too hard to resist. So ZX, it's not you, it's me. I'm too much of a cheapskate to continue with our relationship.
Can I use cheap Chinese aramid/kevlar to these specs? How about with a light electronic prestretched mzx crosses strung @58?
Thats a great combo so yeah you will have to deal with the horrors but its not that bad anyhow. Can last a while if you are not a string breaker and well worth the effort imho
No, but my kid uses Yonex Spin G. It works well when freshly strung. Playability drops after 10-15 hrs. Drops slowly for next 5 hrs. Not competitive after about 20 hrs but will not break and is playable but no predictable control.
I haven't been using this racquet much, but it's holding tension great. I strung it on 5/4/17 and here it is 19 days later and it still feels fresh and new. I hit some serves with it today and it performed well, except that they are 16g strings in an 18x20 frame. I'm going to have to decide which way I'm going with string type. ZX is great, but I just got a reel of poly and I have about a half reel each of two other polys. And I'm a 3.0. I am able to benefit from poly/nylon hybrids, but chasing after 17g ZX would make me feel guilty. And if I love it, I would never use my poly reels and spend much more on ZX sets.
Sure thing man. I wish i could use gut but cant:
I was stringing full bed ZX Pro 2 days ago. Using a starting clamp I broke the knot on the top cross just pulling the first loop of the Parnell string through. I imagine it broke because of the string clamp (or bad string.) Anyway I went back to a starting knot for the top cross and it worked great.
Compare the degree of notching on the crosses, and the reason for the improved performance will be apparent.
No. Most crosses if not all are at some point tied off on the mains. So cutting the mains means the crosses have nothing to tie too and lose tension. Replacing the crosses is possible because the mains stay in place
