The Zyex story from Ashaway was written sometime ago, I presume. I wonder if Ashaway is able to put micro filaments instead of just multifilaments into the center core. I believe Zyex, at about the time after it was sold by ICI Fibers, could only manage a filament of 0.4mm diameter with consistency and quality. To pack thousands of zyex filaments into the core, they will have to come up with filament diameter of at least two more zeros, i.e. 0.004mm. I don't see how they can do it. Perhaps a core of multifilament density is what they are working on.
Sorry, what is the diameter of the MP string ? Do you have any photographs of the packing ? Thank you.
MP White when untensioned is stated at is 0.70mm, actual: 0.69mm When tensioned: ~0.66mm Check my string thickness test here: http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53754
MP blue 0.696 mm orange 0.698 mm white 0.688 mm well, i didnt knew ~0.01 mm difference could be felt. I guess one can
If you had all three strings in your possession, you could see and feel a difference just by inspection. MP Orange and Blue are identical except color. MP White is thinner than both, it's noticeable.
Do you see anything strange with that??.. .70 strings and .68 strings just differs 0.02 and its a huge differens between .65 and 0.7 strings just 0.05mm... /Twobeer
BTW.. I got some Ashaway Flex 68 (A80)..free of charge for promotion..Are those any good?? Not shure if I should bother to try them out.. /Twobeer
Am I the only one who feels embared when explainign to someone you like this string better than the other one because it's (a whopping) 0.01mm thinner... It feels ridiculus.... That said, I tried MLXL for the first time this week... It's not even that bad... It'll be nice when I play less (over the summer) to have something that's very durable, and plays like ~80% of what you really like...
since i have string and feel both ashaway mp white and blue (thanks to sire dinkalot), i am pretty sure from tone test that ashaway mp blue is thicker. blue also feel thicker. white is little less durable.
There is a 6% difference between 0.68mm and 0.70mm, and a 16% difference between 0.65mm and 0.70mm. It is the area of the x-section, not the diameter, difference that truly counts. You get the area by 22/7 x square of the radius. Calipers are not reliable measuring devices for non-hard or rigid surfaces, like strings. Even the more precise micrometer finds it difficult to be very precise because the anvils are not 100% parallel, and the human hand will make it even worse unless you are experienced enough. The narrow calipers jaws are even more difficult to hold the string parallel.
If you're carefull enough only to compress the string as minimal as you can... (compression is inevitable ofcourse) the string will "automatically" line itself up to be parallel... it's a string, it's flexible, when the jaws are "pressed"(gently offcourse) together it's not that hard to have it parallel...