Klipper is KOOL!
Written: Nov 16 '01 (Updated Nov 16 '01)
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Pros: Good Price, Accurate Results, Small in Size, and Easy to Use.
Cons: Clamps that give way after a few years.
The Bottom Line: This is the cheap, and easy way to go if you are a serious player who breaks strings often. Save MONEY!!!
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| jerdatennisman's Full Review: Klippermate Racquet Stringer |
My dad had to give in a buy a racket stringer since we were paying $20 every time that we broke strings that was was pretty often. Maybe about 2 rackets per months amongst the two of us. So that means $40 a month, not to mention all of the renting court money that we had to pay for indoor courts. Looking in the Tennis magazine and seeing the consistent advertisements in the back of the magazine, caught our eye. At the time I think that we paid $140 for it. We did not know if the results were going to be as good as the "proffesional" stringer that we used to have it done by, but we took the chance.
Like the lucky people we are (LOL) the Klippermate does a fine job. Although it took the both of us more than two hours to string the first racket, it was relatively easy to use. We got the hang of it after a while and it was as easy as 1-2-3. The only problems that we ran into were that sometimes if we did not engage the string to be pulled into the pulley all the way, and it was result in the string letting loose getting cut. That cause the string to be useless and we would have to start all over again, but after that we learned our lesson well and we never had cut strings again. Just an error on our part.
If you think about it the stringer is about $140 when we bought it and the strings (depending on which ones you use) are going to be around the area of $3-$10. We use regular synthetic gut and Kevlar. So the average price of the strings we used came out to be about $5 for each racket. That is only 25% of the price it used to cost us. Since we save $15 per racket, it means that after about 9 or 10 rackets that you have strung, you have broke even with how much you would have paid if you did not buy the stringer and were just paying the "proffesional" to do it. Everything after that, is your profit, or pocket money!
Now that we have had the string for about 5 years, we have only had to switch the metal clamps that came with the stringer, and get new plastic clamps for a sort of steep $30 per. The new clamps work fine and are acutally a little better than the metal ones because they are a little lighter and they have more area that they clamp so that they do not need to clamp down as hard on the string and cause indentions in your strings. I am not saying that the metals ones are bad, but they do the job fine, but just break after a few years.
Stringing the rackets after a few months from getting the stringer becomes easier and easier. I can now string one racket within half an hour. Some tips when stringing with this stringer is to make sure that you have the correct tension on the drop weight, and to make sure that you get within +/- 5 degrees of the horizontal when pulling the strings. This will make sure that you are getting the correct tension and consistent results.
So far this stringer has not signs of breaking down on us. I think that this was one of our best investments since it has saved us so much money. My advice is that if you are a serious player and are paying big bucks for the "proffesional" job, just pay the money up front if you have it, cause it will be a lot lighter on your pocket after several months.
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Type: Manual
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