well some strings are pretty rough and unless you can fork money over and have someone to restring your racket everytime, you're pretty much screwed. So i was thinking if there are things to make a string "better" for a person
i like rough strings (braided, for that matter) i have better control at net plays specially in slicing the shuttle
i remember cooldoo6 tried it and said it has a softer feel, why would you make the string more slippery? gives you no advantages at all.
CD6 is in his own class everyone else prefers crispy http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41406&highlight=crispy
I like a nice colourful string with a nice crisp ping when I smash even though yesterday when I was playing all I heard was my frame hitting the shuttle at 12 O'clock. Hey I tell you something that works though if any of you play Golf and you slice or fade with your driver rub some vaseline on the face of it and all your drives go straight hehehe. It actually works!
From my understanding, many string use silicon based coating. I never did research why. However, if you use WD40, it might shorten the string life because the WD40 contain Stoddard Solvent which MIGHT dissolve the string surface or do something bad to the string. If you really want to have a string that last, try piano strings. FYI, WD-40 stand for "Water Displacement, 40th Attempt". Just some useless info.
Master Steve, you never know . . . Maybe the solvent dissolves the strings a bit. When the strings dry up, they become more crispy . . .
wow, what a crazy concept, and here I thought I was nuts... wd-40 on strings... is it in any way corrosive to materials in strings? might as well just dip it in melted butter... might save you some monies edit: forgot to ask, but... does it in anyway splash, or splatter when you hit the shuttle now? That could be dangerous springing a leak on the court... you'll be slipping and sliding around
If you want to slippery up your strings a little but not THAT much, rub some Dri-Lube on them. It comes in sticks and will lubricate a little bit, I use it in tiny amounts when stringing if I get into trouble with a 2-pass grommet. But as with most here, I don't really see why you would.
thought you want rougher strings to slice better, if you put oil it becomes smooth and shuttle just slips off all the time... not to mention the oil makes the strings slip open. by the way what kind of result are you planning to have?
i didn't try it on my racket, b/c hey i paid for my own racket not trying anything stupid, but i did do it to a school racket. Let's just say it was "fun". The birdies were flying EVERYWHERE, it was so hard to aim. But fun. Doesn't do much though, sad really.
Try Yonex BG68ti or BG65ti with ti coating. They are slipery compare to BG80 and BG65. Dear Master Pete, did you try to smoke your string over LSD fume to give some psycho effect to the shuttle???
it's not a "try using this..." topic, it's more like "i'm stuck with this string for now will this work" kinda of topic
Since none of you tried WD40. I don't see how you could have came to your various conclusions. Presumably it is safer to guess than to try huh ? I have used WD40 and I have the following conclusions: 1. WD40 produces very noticeably increased string power 2. The string I treated with multiple application of WD40 lasted 9 months before it broke. So WD40 extends string life. 3. By conincident or correlation, the WD40 treated string produced the crispiest sound I heard from any string. The big smash did not produce a boom, bang, or pock, but a very satisfying lightning like thraaaacckkkkk. The sound also resembled the loud cracking noise produced by a tree just before it fell. 4. Some believe WD40 is poisonous. I had inhaled its vapor on more than a few occasions accidently. I also had it all over my hand as I used it to clean various things, and apply it to various impossible tasks. So far I have not noticed any ill effects apart from my increased creativity in enhancing badminton equipment. 5. WD40 is the fastest and the most reliable tool for removing that hologram on the cone without leaving behind any mess. 6. After a racket, even an old one, is cleaned with WD40, the racket would look almost brand new. My current set of strings are not treated with WD40 because I don't want more power on them. But I do miss the crspy smashing sound I once had. Now I just have to make do with the common loud bang.
