We have provided you with the most important videos about how to string a racket. These videos will give you a good overview of all the things you need to do during the stringing process. By watching the videos, you will see that it is much easier to string a racket than you thought. After you have strung 3 to 5 rackets, you will be able to string a racket within a half an hour.
1. Preparing the racket:
After a string breaks, you cannot use it anymore. Therefore you always have to cut out your old strings and replace them with a new string. You have to be careful that you do not damage the frame during the process. Check the frame to see if there are any cracks in it. Afterwards you should also investigate the tubings. If a tubing is broken, you must change it. Damaged tubings lead almost immediately to other broken strings. These tubings are not expensive. You can buy them in our online shop for very little expense (TAT103).
1.1 Removal of old strings
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1.2 Fix the racket with the machine:
In the first step you must get the clamps in the correct position. Put the tennis racket on the clamps, so that the inner section of the pillars lies directly beside the tennis frame. Afterwards you must do the fine tuning. In the end you use the upper and lower parts of the machine to finish the fixing. Please be careful that you do not fix the racket too tightly.
To see the process of fixing the racket with the machine, please have a look at the first 42 seconds of the video.
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2.1 Setting up tension force for electric stringing machine
Please use the turning knot at the right side of the ball machine to set up the tension force for electric stringing machines:
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2.2 Stretch mechanism for electric stringing machine:
Using the strech mechansim with electric stringing machines is really easy. Take the string in your right hand, wrap it around the quick release and press the button on the electric stringing machine.
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3.1 Setting up tension force for manual stringing machine
By using manual stringing machines, you move the weight in the right position to get the tension force, you would like to have. On the torsion arm you find two charts. One chart is from 8 to 16 kilogramm, the other one is from 16 to 35 kilogramm. Our stringing machines are delivered with a seperable weight. By stringing badminton racket, you need to use the first chart. Therefore you have to split the weight of the stringing machine by using the delivered socket wrench.
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3.2 Stretch mechanism for manual stringing machine:
In the beginning the weight must be on the right side of the stringing machine. Afterwards you fix the string with the stretch mechanism. In the next step you hold the stretch mechansim with the left hand. In the same time you push the torsion arm upwards. Afterwards you lower the weight. In the end it should be in the horizontal position to create the exact stringing tension. If the weight is not in the horizontal position, you have to repeat the process.
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4. Training aids - clamps
4. 1 Working with fixed clamps::
To string one racket, you use a string with the length of 12m. Your starting point is in the middle of the frame .You begin the stringing with the long side. The first 3m of the 12m string, you use to string the right part of the long side. with the other 9m you string the left part of the long side and all of the shorter side. You string from the inside outwards.
You use the clamps for securing the string. By fixing a string, the clamps must be positioned as close as possible to the frame. After you have stretched the string to the desired force, you use the clamp to secure the string.
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4.2 Working with loose clamps
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5.1 Start knot for the shorter side of the frame
The following movie shows you the way to create a start knot for the shorter side.
After creating the start knot, you start "weaving". You begin with the first two short sides, before creating the desired tension force. Use the clamps and work yourself through the whole shorter part of the racket.
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5.2 End knot of the long side
You finish stringing the long side of the racket with an end knot. Please use the correct tubing for it. In the following video, you see the way it is done.
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6. Stringing tools
A hollow hum has two parts: a hollow awl and a straight awl. You push the hollow hum through a tubing. Afterwards you pull the straight awl out of the tubing. The hollow awl still sticks in the tubing and allows you to get the string through easily.
6.1 Stringer tool hollow hum:
A straight awl works perfectly when you want to create more space within a tubing. It helps you to put another string through a tubing.
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6.2 Stringer tool awl straight
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7. Complete stringing process
The following video gives you an overview about the whole process of stringing a tennis racket.
With this information you can easily start to string your own racket for the first time. For more information you can also use the two pdf guides we have created for you. Just click on the link shown and download the pdf documents.
These stringing guides are written in different languages. They describe the whole process on how to string a racket.
Stringing guide 1 and Stringing guide 2
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More information:
Stringing guide
Why are tennis strings important?
Types of tennis strings
Tennis string thickness
The correct tennis string tension
The lifespann of a tennis string
The ideal tennis string
Why string yourself?