Avoiding stripping the coating off Elixirs

[oakforest5961]

I recently bought some Elixir strings, but the thought struck me that as I pull the string through the somewhat sharp-edged hole in the metal bridge, it's going to strip off a string-length's worth of nanoweb coating... So I rolled up a small piece of paper and put some sellotape round it to give it a little strength and stability, then put this in the bridge hole first whilst stringing up. It was a little fiddly, but it worked. I was wondering if anybody has any other such methods of stringing up Elixirs without damaging the coating.

[gary mac]

Not something I've thought about and to date have strung up three, maybe four times with Elixirs. No damage to report.