Urgent!!!!

[Roger Wawrinka]

I need help fast. So I been stringing lately and there has been a problem with my stringer. So I start the mains with a clamp and a starting clamp right next to it, pull tension on the opposite string, clamp, then pull tension on the main with the starting clamp attached. This has worked for me for a very long time. Recently when the tension is being pulled and I remove the clamp with the starting clamp, I hear this loud snap coming from what I think is the tensioner; then the string loses tension on one side.

Help!

I string on a neos 1500.

 

[Irvin]

You should tension at least two mains on one side before moving over to the side with the starting clamp. Clean your clamps and the gripper on the tensioner.

 

[Roger Wawrinka]

I do tension 2 mains forgot to add that.

 

[idono1301]

Sounds like slipping clamps to me

 

[MAX PLY]

Sounds like slippage to me too. Clean clamps and gripper with alcohol. I find a soaked shoelace works very well on the gripper. Good luck.

 

[Irvin]

Point is to find out where the problem is. Once you pull tension on a LO there is no increased tension anywhere so removing the anchor clamp should not make a difference unless the string was not straight when clamped. I'd mark the string and try to see what's slipping.

 

[Steve Huff]

It could also be the base clamp coming undone. You might need to replace the springs in the base. That's the 2nd thing I'd check (the string slipping out of the clamp would be 1st).

 

[idono1301]

It could also be the base clamp coming undone. You might need to replace the springs in the base. That's the 2nd thing I'd check (the string slipping out of the clamp would be 1st).

The OP said it was a neos, so I think there isn't a separate base clamp since it uses glide bars. The clamp may be slipping on the bar though?

 

[idono1301]

But if I had to guess, I'd think it was the actual clamp gripping the string that is slipping

 

[Irvin]

The OP said it was a neos, so I think there isn't a separate base clamp since it uses glide bars. The clamp may be slipping on the bar though?

If it were the clamp slipping on the bar why it not slip until after the anchor clamp were released?

 

[Chotobaka]

1500 is swivel action not glide bars.

 

[Irvin]

1500 is swivel action not glide bars.

You're right I missed that, but still I doubt the bases are the problem.

 

[Rabbit]

I agree with others, clean your clamps.

 

[idono1301]

Haha, sorry about that! I totally missed it also.

In that case, it's pretty much what everyone has repeated many times here, time to clean