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Hybrid Clamping

Hybrid jobs are nice because you have two shorter pieces of string to work with, instead of one long piece. However, you also have two different strings, which means you might have two different gauges. You might even have different string characteristics, and a 16-gauge natural gut is not going to clamp the same as 16-gauge polyester. When you also consider that some natural gut strings have a lubrication on them, and that it’s easier to spot clamp slippage on the mains than on the crosses, you have a situation where you might not find out the clamps were slipping on the crosses until after the racquet is off the machine. Therefore, no matter how well your clamps held the main strings on a hybrid job, always check clamp slippage when you get to the crosses. If you spend the time to pay attention to how the clamps are holding the first couple of crosses, you won’t need to spend time later re-doing the string job correctly.

Greg Raven, MRT, Apple Valley, CA

From the May 2006 issue
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