Peppershaker
Rookie
Looking for some assistance. I know Silent Partners no longer sells these machines but one of my customer's approached me if I'd be interested in a stringer of his that has been in storage for years. He dropped off a Silent Partner e.Stringer FL, which hardly seems to have been used at all. It's not as if I need another machine (have a Neos 1000 & Stringway ML100) but like to play around with different machines and the thought of an electric machine was appealing. Price he offered seems good ($200 or so, we've not settled) but upon testing I've ran into some issues and have one question:
Anyone familiar with these machines and these issues:
Issue #1 - Calibration is consistently 15lbs off to the positive. Setting of 40 will register 55, 45 will register 60. Really surprised to find that the instructions state "take a screw driver remove the dial and reposition".....first thought was maybe there was a screw to remove but there doesn't appear to be, and I'm hesitant to attempt to simply pry off the dial off, it seems relatively tight and there is very little distance between the dial and the cover to place a straight edge screw driver against. Opened the back, and there wasn't anything there that seemed to help.
Issue #2 - I first learned to string on a gamma X-2, and the rotational gripper on this doesn't seem in the least comparable.....and doesn't seem to be working well in that it sticks in the closed position and string wedges inside the front plates. There is a note on the machine that the parts are interchangeable with gamma, but the grippers that I see on the Gamma site have a different screw pattern. I'm going to inquire if they are interchangeable, but the SP Manual doesn't provide any instructions. Again....anyone use one of these machines and familiar with the issue?
Issue #3 - Seems as if this thing is slow, slow, slow!!!! I know slow steady tensioning is good....but first impression is that paint dries faster!
Question....Outside of the tensioner is this a good machine to covert to a Wise? Actually can it be converted?
Anyone familiar with these machines and these issues:
Issue #1 - Calibration is consistently 15lbs off to the positive. Setting of 40 will register 55, 45 will register 60. Really surprised to find that the instructions state "take a screw driver remove the dial and reposition".....first thought was maybe there was a screw to remove but there doesn't appear to be, and I'm hesitant to attempt to simply pry off the dial off, it seems relatively tight and there is very little distance between the dial and the cover to place a straight edge screw driver against. Opened the back, and there wasn't anything there that seemed to help.
Issue #2 - I first learned to string on a gamma X-2, and the rotational gripper on this doesn't seem in the least comparable.....and doesn't seem to be working well in that it sticks in the closed position and string wedges inside the front plates. There is a note on the machine that the parts are interchangeable with gamma, but the grippers that I see on the Gamma site have a different screw pattern. I'm going to inquire if they are interchangeable, but the SP Manual doesn't provide any instructions. Again....anyone use one of these machines and familiar with the issue?
Issue #3 - Seems as if this thing is slow, slow, slow!!!! I know slow steady tensioning is good....but first impression is that paint dries faster!
Question....Outside of the tensioner is this a good machine to covert to a Wise? Actually can it be converted?
