| It depends on the bend. You may have seen from a previous post that I was wrestling with my SchermaSport French grips. I finally listened to everyone and just bent them after I assembled them and "unbent" them when I needed to disassemble them.
These grips are a lot tougher to bend than most French grips (actually, tougher than any French grip in my experience) but they survived. I wouldn't make a habit of repeatedly bending them without a good reason, but for the purposes of assembly and disassembly, they'll survive.
As far as looseness goes, my grips have a hole in the pommel and I use this to tighten them up with a "cheater" after assembly. Just make sure your wires are in the clear at the bell-pommel interface.
I still find that I have to crank on my pommel at least once a bout to make sure it's tight. That's probably due to the lack of a lockwassher in the SchermaSport design.
If your're referring to foils, you probably don't have manhandle them so much.
Paolo
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