I just bought this machine as well. Love it. Have you strung a racquetball racket with this machine? I'm trying to find the right pin pad/adjustment and can't seem to get it to a place where the 6 and 12 mounts reach the racket. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Yes, I sadly too did experience this with some racquetball frames on this machine. I made a video about this on my channel also with my old machine. This is the reason I sold my Baiardo and bought this machine. to alleviate this kind of problem as racquetball is a good chunk of my business. Go and watch that video because what I had to end up doing was similar. I took a inner support piece from my old Gamma machine that has two nubs in it, and I took one of the pieces that come with our machines that have a curve (exactly like the red pieces I have in this video, but I used a black one), and I drilled two holes in it where the two nubs would line up from the Gamma piece and connected them together like a Lego. That was mostly pretty good, but then after a while the piece started torqueing and they would come apart due to different angles of string pulls and force. So to combat this I bought a Dremel tool, and using the flat disk sander tool piece I cut in a small indentation where the black Head piece was meeting the Gamma piece so it would really groove in there and hold together, because that was the area that was failing when it would come apart. I hope I made some sense there! I'll see about making a video stringing a racquetball racquet and I can show that frankenstein piece I made and talk about it. Thanks!
@@TactileRacquetPerformance Thank you for the response. Yes that's a little disappointing as racquetball is a big part of my business as well. I will check out that video you mentioned and will see if I can do something similar. Thanks again for the response on this.
Not a problem at all. A little bit of a bummer all these high end machine's often neglect racquetball frames.... If you don't have any other inner support pieces from other past machines lying around or don't have anything that you can JerryRig together to make that happen, the next best thing to do which is what I was and am going to do if my current piece fails on me, is if you or someone you know is good at 3D printing, or if there's a 3D printing place near you, go to them. Show them the regular short inner support piece that came on our machines that has a flat end and a small pointy end, and tell them you need something similar to this with the hole in the middle that can go around our inner billiard, but longer that comes out at least 1.5" to 2" in length and tapers to a point of about a 1/8" width. Think of like a door wedge. This will extend and shift the racquet far enough down when it is mounted and each of the towers are as far back as they can go so that a you'll have a secure 12 and 6 o'clock fit, and that the machine clamps will be able to reach everywhere on the racquet including the top two crosses when tying those off. Cheers!
Thanks for watching and for your comment! It sure can! In auto mode say if you were weaving the horizontal crosses, you could also just tap the brake button again once, and it will also lock it in place at that moment. Then if you were to hit the tension button the table would stay locked and pull tension. Or you could tap brake button again to release, align string to tension jaws, then pull tension+lock
Aloha Ken, I noticed you posted a couple of videos recently! 👍 Good for you!! 👍👍 Since you've worked machines with a diabolo and now the bird beak, what are the pros and cons of each?
Hey Albert! Thanks for noticing and watching! Means a lot coming from you 🤙 Bird beak!! I've never heard it called that, but it makes perfect sense 😂 With the diabolo really only the cons I could think of are; A: having enough string to wrap around it for each pull (as we know once we get closer to finishing crosses the length may be limited, and we just end up bypassing the diabolo anyway), and B: Although it's very negligible, the amount of time added up over many string jobs to do the extra motion of wrapping the string around it, and then pulling tension, opposed to either bypassing it and going directly in, or if the machine tension head unit didn't have that to begin with and you just go straight into the jaws right away. That time could add up in the long run? Though probably wouldn't make That much of a real difference I suppose. The one con for Bird Beak of my machine is what I mentioned in my video about if the mains start in the Head and if the first pull is at the Throat, since it rises up, the racquet handle gets in the way and you have to do a slightly awkward unnatural pull angle for the first 2 mains on each side at the throat, but after that it's all groovy. I do believe a Pro is having the string being pulled at same level of the frame, instead of a slightly downward angle, it reminds me of my old crank machine where the diabolo was at frame level, and then the jaws were slightly below that at an angle off to the right. But the end result probably don't matter and would be very close, if not the exact same - hey, that would be a good experiment! ;) String a racquet or two on one electronic machine with a diabolo, take RDC, ERT readings, and then string the same racquets on a machine without a diabolo, same reference tension, and take readings and compare. All this aside though, I believe the perfect happy medium for tension heads of diabolo or no diabolo, is the traction unit of the Evolution/Tour :) You can save time not having to wrap string around, and also get the benefit of no raising mechanism so you can still pull at the throat and not have it interfere with the racquet handle 🤙
@@TactileRacquetPerformance I've heard the term "Bird Beak" from other stringers. It would make perfect sense on the Solinco GT Falcon machine . . . LOL! Funny you mention the "experiment," you must have missed this video! ua-cam.com/video/NOwzIP_N-kM/v-deo.html Sorry, I had to edit this comment. I wanted to ask you if your machine can do the following. Can your Head machine string clamp reach past the 12:00/6:00 halfway point and clamp the first string on the opposite side? This would apply to when you're starting the main strings.
Oh yes!! I do remember now! I just rewatched it. Good stuff. I think now if I ever got the chance to with my machine and another electronic machine in the same room, is do that same experiment, but with the bird beak tension head of mine, vs one a diabolo 🤔 The Solinco GT Falcon and my Head machine are pretty close siblings, I even considered about opting for that one when I was in the market, but I chose the Head machine since it has slightly curved rails for the clamps, knot function can be adjusted to more than just 10%, and the towers are easier to adjust and lock in place and also have the markings on the turn table to let you know how far it's at so you can place them both symmetrical. The clamps can reach beyond 12 & 6! I did see your video regarding that, I will have to start doing that on frames where the mains start in the head 🤙
Hi as you mentioned about gamma machine in your video if you compare this with Gamma els 9900 which one will be better to buy I just need your opinion thanks
Hello! Thanks for watching and commenting 👋 Good question! They are both pretty close in price, and the Gamma 9900 ELS was another machine choice I was debating on before I made the choice to get mine. So 1: I do like the automatic table braking feature of the Head machine, and that the brake is electronic is simple and easy to use as pushing a button to engage and release the brake. 2: The base stand of the Head machine also is a little more sturdier than the Gamma. Gamma has other cool features like cross tension setting change with a button, and other cool little features like that, but as a whole, I like the looks and the auto brake feature more of the Head machine and that is what made me go with this machine 🙌
Thank you very much I was very confused you made me clear as gamma is not available in uk and head is available with technical so I will go with head thank you very much I will mainly use it for badminton
@@TactileRacquetPerformancehi I bought this machine last week really cool for tennis & badminton I’m really enjoying use this machine. How come mine didn’t come with reels holder 😂
Hello! Cool video! I was thinking the same thing about the first pull when you have to change the angle of the racket so you will be able to pull them! And so for that reason, I was thinking to buy the Dunlop Stringing machine 3.0! I know they are pretty similar! Do you think is it worth to not buy the head machine for that reason?
Thanks for watching! Yes that is a very small minor nuisance... lol Only on the first 4 mains in the throat, so the first 2 on each side basically, it is a little awkward and you have to pull it at a weird unnatural angle, then after that it's great, and I do like having the string raised up to pull level with the frame. I just checked out the 3.0 machine and it does look nice too! The tension head has pretty much all same features/abilities, just in a different look. The Pro's I can see going with the Dunlop is there is more room/space for tools. Two designated tool areas up top on the tension head, and then also you have the tool tray beneath that fully slides in and out, so if you're a tool junkie like me, that can be very handy! As well as having a diabolo so you can pull at the handle with no problems too is a plus. Only small potential downside I can see is the rails on the turntable are straight, and not curved like a lot of machines, but honestly that's probably no big deal at all and shouldn't hinder from getting to any area on any racquet.
Hi, what is the base clamp post diameter? I could not find any info it. Appreciate your help
I just bought this machine as well. Love it. Have you strung a racquetball racket with this machine? I'm trying to find the right pin pad/adjustment and can't seem to get it to a place where the 6 and 12 mounts reach the racket. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Yes, I sadly too did experience this with some racquetball frames on this machine. I made a video about this on my channel also with my old machine. This is the reason I sold my Baiardo and bought this machine. to alleviate this kind of problem as racquetball is a good chunk of my business. Go and watch that video because what I had to end up doing was similar. I took a inner support piece from my old Gamma machine that has two nubs in it, and I took one of the pieces that come with our machines that have a curve (exactly like the red pieces I have in this video, but I used a black one), and I drilled two holes in it where the two nubs would line up from the Gamma piece and connected them together like a Lego.
That was mostly pretty good, but then after a while the piece started torqueing and they would come apart due to different angles of string pulls and force. So to combat this I bought a Dremel tool, and using the flat disk sander tool piece I cut in a small indentation where the black Head piece was meeting the Gamma piece so it would really groove in there and hold together, because that was the area that was failing when it would come apart.
I hope I made some sense there! I'll see about making a video stringing a racquetball racquet and I can show that frankenstein piece I made and talk about it.
Thanks!
@@TactileRacquetPerformance Thank you for the response. Yes that's a little disappointing as racquetball is a big part of my business as well. I will check out that video you mentioned and will see if I can do something similar. Thanks again for the response on this.
Not a problem at all. A little bit of a bummer all these high end machine's often neglect racquetball frames....
If you don't have any other inner support pieces from other past machines lying around or don't have anything that you can JerryRig together to make that happen, the next best thing to do which is what I was and am going to do if my current piece fails on me, is if you or someone you know is good at 3D printing, or if there's a 3D printing place near you, go to them. Show them the regular short inner support piece that came on our machines that has a flat end and a small pointy end, and tell them you need something similar to this with the hole in the middle that can go around our inner billiard, but longer that comes out at least 1.5" to 2" in length and tapers to a point of about a 1/8" width. Think of like a door wedge.
This will extend and shift the racquet far enough down when it is mounted and each of the towers are as far back as they can go so that a you'll have a secure 12 and 6 o'clock fit, and that the machine clamps will be able to reach everywhere on the racquet including the top two crosses when tying those off.
Cheers!
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When the brake on auto mode, can the brake be activated manually when weaving the horizontal.
Thanks for watching and for your comment!
It sure can! In auto mode say if you were weaving the horizontal crosses, you could also just tap the brake button again once, and it will also lock it in place at that moment.
Then if you were to hit the tension button the table would stay locked and pull tension. Or you could tap brake button again to release, align string to tension jaws, then pull tension+lock
Aloha Ken,
I noticed you posted a couple of videos recently! 👍 Good for you!! 👍👍
Since you've worked machines with a diabolo and now the bird beak, what are the pros and cons of each?
Hey Albert! Thanks for noticing and watching! Means a lot coming from you 🤙
Bird beak!! I've never heard it called that, but it makes perfect sense 😂
With the diabolo really only the cons I could think of are; A: having enough string to wrap around it for each pull (as we know once we get closer to finishing crosses the length may be limited, and we just end up bypassing the diabolo anyway), and B: Although it's very negligible, the amount of time added up over many string jobs to do the extra motion of wrapping the string around it, and then pulling tension, opposed to either bypassing it and going directly in, or if the machine tension head unit didn't have that to begin with and you just go straight into the jaws right away.
That time could add up in the long run? Though probably wouldn't make That much of a real difference I suppose.
The one con for Bird Beak of my machine is what I mentioned in my video about if the mains start in the Head and if the first pull is at the Throat, since it rises up, the racquet handle gets in the way and you have to do a slightly awkward unnatural pull angle for the first 2 mains on each side at the throat, but after that it's all groovy.
I do believe a Pro is having the string being pulled at same level of the frame, instead of a slightly downward angle, it reminds me of my old crank machine where the diabolo was at frame level, and then the jaws were slightly below that at an angle off to the right.
But the end result probably don't matter and would be very close, if not the exact same - hey, that would be a good experiment! ;)
String a racquet or two on one electronic machine with a diabolo, take RDC, ERT readings, and then string the same racquets on a machine without a diabolo, same reference tension, and take readings and compare.
All this aside though, I believe the perfect happy medium for tension heads of diabolo or no diabolo, is the traction unit of the Evolution/Tour :)
You can save time not having to wrap string around, and also get the benefit of no raising mechanism so you can still pull at the throat and not have it interfere with the racquet handle 🤙
@@TactileRacquetPerformance I've heard the term "Bird Beak" from other stringers. It would make perfect sense on the Solinco GT Falcon machine . . . LOL!
Funny you mention the "experiment," you must have missed this video!
ua-cam.com/video/NOwzIP_N-kM/v-deo.html
Sorry, I had to edit this comment. I wanted to ask you if your machine can do the following.
Can your Head machine string clamp reach past the 12:00/6:00 halfway point and clamp the first string on the opposite side? This would apply to when you're starting the main strings.
Oh yes!! I do remember now! I just rewatched it. Good stuff.
I think now if I ever got the chance to with my machine and another electronic machine in the same room, is do that same experiment, but with the bird beak tension head of mine, vs one a diabolo 🤔
The Solinco GT Falcon and my Head machine are pretty close siblings, I even considered about opting for that one when I was in the market, but I chose the Head machine since it has slightly curved rails for the clamps, knot function can be adjusted to more than just 10%, and the towers are easier to adjust and lock in place and also have the markings on the turn table to let you know how far it's at so you can place them both symmetrical.
The clamps can reach beyond 12 & 6! I did see your video regarding that, I will have to start doing that on frames where the mains start in the head 🤙
Where did you buy this stringer from?
I got mine directly from Head, I do have an account with them.
I live in the U.S.
Hi did you received any foot for the stand
Greetings! There is no foot pedal for this machine if that is what you mean?
Hi sorry I mean foot for the stand underneath the stand base
Hi as you mentioned about gamma machine in your video if you compare this with Gamma els 9900 which one will be better to buy I just need your opinion thanks
Hello! Thanks for watching and commenting 👋
Good question! They are both pretty close in price, and the Gamma 9900 ELS was another machine choice I was debating on before I made the choice to get mine.
So 1: I do like the automatic table braking feature of the Head machine, and that the brake is electronic is simple and easy to use as pushing a button to engage and release the brake.
2: The base stand of the Head machine also is a little more sturdier than the Gamma.
Gamma has other cool features like cross tension setting change with a button, and other cool little features like that, but as a whole, I like the looks and the auto brake feature more of the Head machine and that is what made me go with this machine 🙌
Thank you very much I was very confused you made me clear as gamma is not available in uk and head is available with technical so I will go with head thank you very much I will mainly use it for badminton
I do a handful of Badminton as well, and this machine handles badminton with no problems and comes with everything you need for badminton 👍🏼
@@TactileRacquetPerformance thank you very much
@@TactileRacquetPerformancehi I bought this machine last week really cool for tennis & badminton I’m really enjoying use this machine.
How come mine didn’t come with reels holder 😂
Hello! Cool video!
I was thinking the same thing about the first pull when you have to change the angle of the racket so you will be able to pull them! And so for that reason, I was thinking to buy the Dunlop Stringing machine 3.0! I know they are pretty similar! Do you think is it worth to not buy the head machine for that reason?
Thanks for watching!
Yes that is a very small minor nuisance... lol Only on the first 4 mains in the throat, so the first 2 on each side basically, it is a little awkward and you have to pull it at a weird unnatural angle, then after that it's great, and I do like having the string raised up to pull level with the frame.
I just checked out the 3.0 machine and it does look nice too!
The tension head has pretty much all same features/abilities, just in a different look.
The Pro's I can see going with the Dunlop is there is more room/space for tools. Two designated tool areas up top on the tension head, and then also you have the tool tray beneath that fully slides in and out, so if you're a tool junkie like me, that can be very handy!
As well as having a diabolo so you can pull at the handle with no problems too is a plus.
Only small potential downside I can see is the rails on the turntable are straight, and not curved like a lot of machines, but honestly that's probably no big deal at all and shouldn't hinder from getting to any area on any racquet.
Thank you for the reply 😃