My paint doesn't come off with the black end tape from grips (I grip it all the way up the cone). However the one time I tried towel grip on my yonex it totally ate up the undergrip so I wouldn't be surprised if it took paint of the cone.
I dont grip over the cone, but the cone paint is peeling off on at least three of my tpro: 1 yellow and two gold that I have noticed so far.
as said by mr tactim,it's the paint in the top-cone area,where the cone meets the shaft,and it came off with the grip. i usually wrapping my grip up to the cone area,n never had this happened before. previously,i used ac102 in my tpro before changing to towel grip.
I've had this paint chip off on my TPros (1st colour scheme), I'm not worrying about it, it's only a minor aesthetic thing and it's not like I'm going to be giving them away any time soon so... As long as the plastic cone doesn't crack like on my T2.
That sounds fabulous. The only racket i've seen so far, that has a stringing tension of 40lbs, is the Fleet Super High Tension. But, of course, i didn't try that high
Hehe , how did you end up at that post from 3 years ago? Apacs Slayer 99 can also easily take 37lbs so most likely can do 40 as well
Never trying that again, just had both of the ones I bought (second handadmittedly) break either within five minutes or on the stringing machine when being strung at 28/30. Will any of the newer series have same shaft spec and head shape as the trinities but cope any better with this stringing? Because I'm now flat out broke so I'm going to have to wait.
That sounds fishy. I have been doing 32 to 33lbs (or simply 35lbs crank) on my 1 year old T2 and it is still very strong considering the amount of paint chips it has due to the slightly weak paint job.
I never had my T2 strung past 27, but had been playing with my two original TPros strung at 28 lbs at every string they've had fine, just bought two second hand from cayzi and decided to have them strung same as my UPro 28/30 and they both pretty much caved under stringing. Ah well, stercus accidit.
Strung Teebs' second Trinity Pro today (28/30 pounds), when I was doing the remaining 5 cross string, I had actually reduced the tension as I saw and felt that the frame is being irregular in shape (it does happen to other rackets too, including YY's rackets, but the change of shape on the Trinity Pro is far greater than the YY ones). Unfortunately, the frame still broke at the 2 o'clock position.
What stringing machine did you use? Does it have a 6 point support system? If it does then you probably had the support arms set at a wrong point (I am guessing too high/north).
Exactly, at very high to uber high tension, the distance between the north/south support arms should be closer together.
I do have a six pt support system and I have put spreaders at 12 and 6 o'clock position. The other 4 supporting pts are right at the 2, 10, 4 and 8 o'clock position.
At what exact points did you set the frame (i.e. in between which grommets at the 2, 10, 4 and 8 o'clock points)? I will compare that to my setup later.
what? broken while being strung? i saw mine strung at 22/24 lbs,and didn't see much frame movement on the process,unlike my hi-end yy racket that strung at the same time,which make my stringer some kind of astonished
I strung my T2's at 29lbs and they're both stable. No mentionable deformation, and both still going strong (one survived a few clashes in defense). I do a top-down string job with the upper supports kinda low on the frame - so I start the crosses with a slightly lower tension than the mains and go a bit higher on the 6th or 7th (for a 29lbs string job, that's 28-28,5 at the top and 30 from the 7th/8th on). I find that setup to be ideal as the frame is usually weakest at the 10 and 2 positions, where I have the cross tension reduced to avoid deformation (which is always a sign of increased stress).
I have no idea then, some pictures for the sadists out there (the first is the one that lasted 10 minutes, the second the one that broke during stringing): http://goo.gl/jKdtR http://goo.gl/FC51s And as far as stringing goes, the UPro which is fine by the same stringer, and proof of what I'm reliably informed is the correct stringing pattern used on the rackets: http://goo.gl/84C1E http://goo.gl/4CKqV
@Teebs: when a racket breaks like that, usually it's the stringer and/or due to a clash. Breaking in three points usually indicates the racket was strung unevenly or at extremely high tension. Also you mentioned you purchased two and they both caved in like that?!?!?! Something is definitely up. Please e-mail this Panda and let's see what he can do for you. Sorry this happened.
