badminton awl and tennis awl Guys, I saw in eagnas website that theres a badminton awl and a tennis awl. Is there any difference? thickness etc?
Sure there is. The tennis awl is thicker than the badminton awl. This is because the grommets on a tennis racquet is larger than what you usually see on a badminton racquet.
My advice is to stay away from an awl. All it can do is to do harm to your frame, grommets and strings.
But, sometimes when i need to tie off, the string cant get into the shared grommets, what do u suggest i use? Thanks in advance.
When i bought my eagnas machine, it came with an awl. Any idea of the stock awl is a tennis or badminton awl? My machine came with tennis clamps though.
I have always used the string mover to move the string aside and down to allow easy entry of the second string. Make sure your racquet is well mounted before you do this. If you find this difficult you can use dental floss to pull the second string through, but this is slow and time consuming.
I think they are different right? I ordered a badminton awl from NRC Sports, but I received a tennis awl, from the picture of the packaging. Also it looks like the tennis awl on their website instead of the badminton awl. Not sure if they will allow exchange. I paid 6.95 for shipping , the awl itself is $4 . Anyway, anyone know any good site that I can get a badminton awl?
when I bought my machine they gave me tennis awl as well, and they said it is just the same ..... since I very rare to use it, so just dun care much about it ...
Yeah, my machine came with a tennis awl as well, and I broke the tip of that awl, I think because it's too 'fat' for the badminton racquect. I just dont want to break another one :crying:
Try www.klipperusa.com I have their awl came with my machine. I also ordered an extra tip for backup purpose. Overall, their awl is better than a lot of others I've seen. Klipper awl has the rather round tip, which in theory, should reduce the chance to cause damage to string. Of course, the key point of using awl is to use it in a gentle way. Brutal insertions can cause serious damage to the string, frame and the awl itself.
I think we debate this to death in a few other threads already... Again, any tool has the advantage and disadvantage. It really depends on the user, whether s/he can correctly and effectively use a tool or not. If the result of awl usage is really as you stated, then I am sure the manufacture will stop the production long time ago. People tend to blame the tools, the luck, the others, when they simply do not know how to perform a task correctly. So, instead of blame themselves, and improve on themselves, they pick the goat and finger pointing. Anyway, stay away from the awl, if you do not know how to use it. However, there's no point to spread the rumors around, simply because YOU do not want, or even know how to use it.
So you're now OK with the dental floss granted its a slow technique ... is the heat generated from the resistance of dental floss not as big a deal now anymore? Or should we still be worried?
I do not believe Mr T has ever use dental floss on his teeth or racquet before. Anyway, for those who has use dental floss to clean between your teeth, has the heat generated by the dental floss bother you in anyway before? Did you feel any heat from your floss motion anyway?
Next time, maybe awl will be lucky enough to be out of his "dog house". Then what's next... maybe hammer???
Im not sure its just me or the site's search machine. I usually didn't find it helpful with the search machine, and people keep asking me to do a search before asking a question. I've tried other forums' search function, and I have to say that the Search function for this forum is pretty 'lame'. And I apologize if this does bother some of you that I ask a question that had been posted before.
