Hello, this is my first post!
Here is my stringing machine I purchased from a friend:
It's a Li Ning M807 with a Wise tension-er (with many modifications). I have to admit I am a chronic tinker-er and perfectionist so I made many changes to the gripper apparatus and the rest of the machine. The stringing machine is up on some casters (FootMaster) from Amazon as the basement is primarily a workshop and the stringing machine actually doesn't come out too often.
The awl is just mounted to the bottom tray via a super-glue bottle cap hot-glued to the metal side.
Closer view of the gripper apparatus:
The top guides are mounted with tiny bolts after drilling and tapping. I tried to make as little permanent changes as possible in case I want to sell the machine in the future. The only other permanent modification is the little piece attached to the back of the actual gripper plate is bolted on.
More views of the modifications:
All the silver parts added on are made of aluminium with the exception of the wire that limits the "return" travel of the grippers and the bracket the holds them.
The button/switch is the perfect embodiment of my over-tinkering and perfectionism

, it's completely over engineered and over built (it's actually the 4th version of the switch). I can post more pictures and details if others are interested (it has a little latch and door and MAGNETS). The actual switch is just a key-switch (Cherry MX) from a key-switch sample bought from eBay. And the silver "cap" is just a bit of aluminium hot-glued to each other.
Load spreader with a magnet super-glued to the bottom cause it kept falling off after use.
I plan to add one of those little shelves from Ikea directly in front of the tension-er for more quick-access storage but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe I'll post more pictures after I get to adding it. I also may try to add the function where the tension-er is activated when the gripper jaws are pulled forward when you go to tension the string, but that's for the future me.
Thanks for reading my (first!) post.