[MENTION=34474]Tedski[/MENTION] So are you gonna do a warranty claim? If not, you have to do a post mortem for us, with lots of pics!
i bought one purely to collect since it seems like a pretty unique racket. while warming up i hit the shuttle with the frame, checked, already a paint chip, so i decided to retire it after 10min of playing time. quickest retirement of any racket i've owned. now it just sits on my wall i am sorry to those who's broken their FB one way or another. it is quite fragile and it's just too stressful for me to play with it and hoping that it won't break.
Arc saber FB. This is probably the most fragile racket ever made by Yonex. I've already broke my FB twice is less then 5 months both the time it was purely a miss hit. Luckily I got my 1st broken fb replaced by yonex. Am hoping the same this time. Very disappointed with yonexs quality of this racket. I hope they would do something about it because it's such a nice racket. Beautifully engineered. Love this racket but if I had to buy one I probably wouldn't after witnessing my previous two rackets. Too big of a risk.
I bought one in April, and it broke in August. So sad... I would have to send it back to HK to get it replaced
WOOO. SAME as my yonex armotec 700, tension 27 , after a big smash .. $240 gone... I think will not take up yonex racket in future!
"graphene" is a "lie" sometimes you can scratch your pencil on a surface and peel it off with an adhesive tape to get very small pieces of graphene, perhaps only visible through magnification. real large sheets of graphene is almost impossible to build and not to even talk about moulding it into a racquet. what you are getting, is probably tiny flakes, or simply graphite, mixed into loads of resin unless one day they find ways to cheaply stitch the sheets together, having tiny flakes is still nonsense, you dont get strength as the glue to graphene joint is the weakest. a big load of "marketing" bull sometimes
A six point machine might have saved the FB from breaking. Also, what stringing pattern are you using? Seems like there's an extra cross at B8?
No frame supports or load spreader on probably the most fragile racquet on the market? Surely it was always going to break?
Graphene currently costs around $250-500 per gram - you've got to wonder just how much can be used on a $200 racket...
A 77 g, even balanced VTZF? Without Tri-Voltage? Tbh, you're asking for trouble not using six-point with badminton rackets, and especially that fly-swatter.
precisely... i have collaborators that work with graphene in research and they always laugh at all the talk of graphene in racquets.. which in principle is just simply a fancy name for graphite (carbon) unless they found a way to cheaply stich large sheets of graphene for racquet molding (unlikely)
Hi my FB was fractured at 7 o'clock of the frame. Sent back yo shop in Qw as it's still under warranty. But shop keeper told me it wld take upto2 mths for Sunrise to issue credit note. Until then he advised me to get from him a new racquet if I need it urgently ... any advice here the market turn around time? And what can I do to expedite the process? Can I approach Sunrise direct? thanks
I would like to add; another 1 month is needed for the racket to be shipped to Japan & inspected by Yonex and returned back to you. If you would go personally to Sunrise (I'm not quite sure whether this is possible/allowed or not), the entire procedure would take approximately 3 months to complete. There's nothing that you could do to hasten up the process. (Sorry for the bad news. I hope this info might assist you to decide whether to get a new racket or not as it was provided to me by a local retailer around 2 years ago)
