Stringing machine recommendation

[McLovin]

but photo wouldn't load here, sorry!

The best way to load photos is to have a hosting site (e.g., Flickr) and upload them there. Then get a link directly to the photo (e.g. https://my.hosting.site.com/some/path/to/image.jpg) and paste that link inside 'img' tags as such:

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NOTE: You'd remove the spaces between the braces and the 'img' text in your post. I put them there because if I didn't, it would try to link to that fake URL.

 

[Peyote Biornsson]

Thank you, Rabbit. I watched for years some of the successes and struggles that many friends and playing partners both enjoyed and suffered wth home stringing, so when I decided to get my own machine earlier this year I was both excited and terrified, plus the machines available during covid left me with slim pickings given that I wanted a good electronic constant pull machine that my son could learn on with a minimum amount of angst that could potenially lead to paid employment as a stringer(he's kind of a slacker right now with no particular goals in life for now.Stringing seems like an achievable career goal for the moment.). I looked at a lot of options nd eventually settled on the Gamma XLT with the floor stand. It is a nice machine that doesnt take up a lot of room in my relatively small condo. In the end it came down for me between the XLT or going with a Tourna crank machine that could easily accommodate a Wise tensioner. The deciding factor was that the backorder availability date was better with the XLT vs. the Tourna machine. For anyone else looking to get a machine now you might want to consider the backorder period as it seems that a lot of people are looking for hobbies they can do during this nasty covid world. The higher demand for machines combined with worldwide shipping issues kind of creates a pefect storm for machine shortages right now. If you see an available machine that you like, buy it now; don't wait around for the price to improve. The price won't go down and you may miss out on the machine.

 

[Peyote Biornsson]

The best way to load photos is to have a hosting site (e.g., Flickr) and upload them there. Then get a link directly to the photo (e.g. https://my.hosting.site.com/some/path/to/image.jpg) and paste that link inside 'img' tags as such:

[ img ]https://my.hosting.site.com/some/path/to/image.jpg[ /img ]​

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NOTE: You'd remove the spaces between the braces and the 'img' text in your post. I put them there because if I didn't, it would try to link to that fake URL.

Sadly, if I can't drag and drop a photo into a message or easily import it from my photos I quickly lose interest in posting a photo. Maybe I'm lazy, but it is what it is.

 

[Peyote Biornsson]

@Peyote Biornsson - congrats and welcome to the wonderful fraternity of home stringers. May your journey be half as costly and weird as mine!

Rabbit: So far the experience has been great. The stringer was up and running in a short amount of time and I had already ordered a few reels of string I knew to be reliable and playable (and cost-effective). So we are already good to go for the near future unless my kid's tennis journey leads us down a dark path of bizarre frankenstein-style stringing experiments. But I am emotionally and verbally prepared for that, should it occur.

Regards,

Peyote

 

[McLovin]

Sadly, if I can't drag and drop a photo into a message or easily import it from my photos I quickly lose interest in posting a photo. Maybe I'm lazy, but it is what it is.

Hahaha.

When I was a kid, we had this thing called 'film' from our camera, and after taking all of the pictures on the film roll, we had to get it developed (called 'negatives'), then have the negatives printed on paper. And we had to do it by walking to the local drug store...barefoot...in 3 feet of snow...uphill...both ways...

 

[Wes]

Hahaha.

When I was a kid, we this thing called 'film' from our camera and, and after taking all of the pictures on the film roll, we had get it developed (called 'negatives'), then have the negatives printed on paper. And we had to do it by walking to the local drug store...barefoot...in 3 feet of snow...uphill...both ways...

Well... as Edith and Archie sang... "Those were the days!"

 

[Peyote Biornsson]

Hahaha.

When I was a kid, we this thing called 'film' from our camera and, and after taking all of the pictures on the film roll, we had get it developed (called 'negatives'), then have the negatives printed on paper. And we had to do it by walking to the local drug store...barefoot...in 3 feet of snow...uphill...both ways...

I grew up in that era as well, but we didn't have a local drugstore, so film would rarely get developed and visual depictions of events wee in the form of stick figures and these weird, waxy colorful drawing sticks I think were called crayons,we also had the the bare feet the ubiquitous hill, and of course the snow.

 

[McLovin]

I grew up in that era as well, but we didn't have a local drugstore, so film would rarely get developed and isual depictions of events wee in the form of stick figures and these weird, waxy colorful drawing sticks I think were called crayons, just the bare feet the ubiquitous hill, and of course the snow.

lol. As a child of Kodak (both my parents worked & retired from there), it was a law in the city of Rochester, punishable by death, that all film be developed and printed within 48 hours of taking the last photo in the reel. So, like Starbucks of today, there was a film processing station within an 1/8 mile radius from wherever you stood...

 

[Peyote Biornsson]

lol. As a child of Kodak (both my parents worked & retired from there), it was a law in the city of Rochester, punishable by death, that all film be developed and printed within 48 hours of taking the last photo in the reel. So, like Starbucks of today, there was a film processing station within an 1/8 mile radius from wherever you stood...

McLovin: you undersold the ubiquitous nature of Starbucks. For example, I live in the Puget Sound area. In a small suburb here called Edmonds, which has a large intersection called "5 Corners," there is a Starbucks on three of the five corners and another in a grocery store on one of the remaining two corners (at the time of my last visit to that area).