*cough* ripoff *cough* naw, kidding... a reel would cost about 100euro's 19~20 stringingjobs (200m/10=20 minus 1 for room for error) 30 pounds is about 43 euro's...1 set for 4,3 euro's is good.... though i stick with bg80
well, personally. I'm not into sets.... I liek the 200m reels..If i mess up on the mains (happens with babolats mostly..or soem other stuff that goes wrong) i can cut them, an dget a new one without having to throw away the pack...plus...I use 5,2m on mains, and 4,2m on crosses (guess)...thats a saving of .6m ..on 20 rackets I gain another racket (0,6x20=12.0) giving me a: antoher racket out of a reel, or b: room for error, or c: a combination of a and b. Gettign me teh crosses/mains for the next racket of teh next reel...
i haven't ordered a machine quite yet but i am getting fed up of my stringer getting the patterns wrong. i gave him the stringing guide to my ns8k nd he still strung it 22x22
wow....were did he tie off the mains? No offence, but I'm rather impressed he actually got 2 strings threw any other grommet than #7 and #5... at least..I'm assumign he started at #7-top(#8 countign the shared grommets)...and ended at#8 then were in lords name did he out 1 (or 2) tie offs threw such small grommets (#7 and #5 look larger than other bottom-grommets)
he didn't say why because he wasn't even there when i picked it up ... lets just say he is a bit older than most good stringers
nect time he strings it..just say "that wont do" and "use this pattern" and giv ehim the pattern of yy....be more polite than I'm sayign it now though
hopefully i shouldn't be using him that many more times because i am hoping to get that machine from the other thread sometime in march
aha still, next time ask him to do it with the pattern..and as soon as you pick it up check it...and give it back...
it's not just my stringer that is bad... fast3r got one of his airblade superlights restrung by www.centralsports.com and they overlapped alot of the strings between grommets
where there are two strings going from one grommet to the other (on the outside of the frame) the strings were on top of each other instead of side by side. its not a big problem but it will reduce string life and centralsports are meant to have the best stringers in the country
it's quite funny because the same guy at my club who took 5hours to string a racket also managed to miss out two cross strings , 1 near the top and 1 near the bottom. luckily it doesnt affect the rackets performance but everyone keeps telling himhis strings are broken
