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Babolat Star 5 Tennis Stringing Machine
- $999.00
- Ex Tax: $999.00
- Reward Points: %s 100
- Product Code: Star 5
- Availability: In Stock
The turntable lock lever found on the Star 3 and Star 4 has been replaced with a round knob, mounted on the front as it is on the Sensor, but recessed so that there is much less chance to snag the string. The location is fine, and it does prevent turntable movement when tying off, as advertised. Unfortunately the round knob doesn’t afford as much leverage as the old-style. Also, access to the knob..
Tags: Stringing Machine
The turntable lock lever found on the Star 3 and Star 4 has been replaced with a round knob, mounted on the front as it is on the Sensor, but recessed so that there is much less chance to snag the string. The location is fine, and it does prevent turntable movement when tying off, as advertised. Unfortunately the round knob doesn’t afford as much leverage as the old-style. Also, access to the knob is partially obscured by the shroud of the machine, making it more difficult to immobilize the turntable when stringing “problem” racquets such as the larger Prince O3s, Wilsons with PowerHoles, and the Wilson T2000 series, especially if the Star 5 is mounted on a table or bench. It would be nice if the knob was on a sliding shaft, to allow it to be pulled clear of the shroud. Fortunately, Prince provides a “boomerang” tool for the O3 series of racquets, which eliminates the need of locking the turntable on by far the most common of these frames.
The rigid turntable and fixed-towers of the Star 5 (and its predecessors) do offer a stable base for the mounting system, but it can also be limiting. With the Star 3 and Star 4, Babolat offered adapters to mount racquets that were otherwise too large to fit the machine. With the Star 5, there are no adapters for oversize frames, and we found only one frame — the throatless Head Ti.S7 — that needed an adapter, and the Star 5 is hardly alone in this category. (The USRSA provides this adapter is free to members for the asking.) The Star 5 mounted even the Gamma Big Bubba, Wilson Hyper Hammer 3.3 “The Limits,” and the Head i.160 squash frames with no problems. Like the Star 4 and Sensor, the stock Star 5 will not mount small-headed racquets such as woodies and the Wilson T2000 series. If this is an important part of your business, you will need the optional badminton adapter kit at $450.
Even some frames that mount fine still present problems, such as the Blackburne DS 107, which requires the removal of the machine clamps so that you can use floating clamps top and bottom, and racquetball frames that have the top cross so high that they are out of the reach of the Star 5 clamps.
Speaking of the clamps, we found that the three-tooth clamps are easier to fit between the strings of most racquets. However, there are stringers who believe that clamping off must be done right next to the head, and with fewer teeth, the Star 5 clamps aren’t going to allow this on the crosses. Also, on exceptionally tight stringbeds, the more gradual angle of the sides of the teeth on the Star 5 clamp made it more difficult to force the clamp up into position against the resistance of previously installed strings.