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Mounting Racquetball Frames

In our tennis shop, we do a lot of racquetball stringing on an Ektelon Model H. For some time I encountered a problem mounting racquetball racquets on this machine because many of them have long stringbeds and a thin profile in the throat area. Sliding the towers far enough apart to mount the racquet allows the post of the hold-down clamp to bottom out on the throat stock of the machine. With the clamp applying inadequate pressure against the throat of the frame, the frame can move when you are pulling the last two crosses.

My solution is to mount the frame on the machine backward. By flipping the frame around in the mounting system, the hold-down clamp at the “throat” end of the machine is able to secure the top of the racquet where the frame is thicker, and at the “head” end of the machine it doesn’t matter if the hold-down clamp post protrudes well below the underside of the tower. No more frame movement during stringing.

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Fred McWilliams, CS, Arlington, TX

From the October 2004 issue
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