On 2018-10-17 11:04, Ned Mantei wrote:


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And then comes truing the wheel so that it's round, centered between the
hub locknuts, and the spokes have more or less even tension. I have no
routine with this, and even with a truing stand, a dish tool to check
for centering, and a tensiometer, it takes me about 3 hours to get the
wheel close enough. People who do this often probably need less than
half an hour. It helps if you have a good sense of pitch, so that you
can judge relative tension by the tone you hear when plucking a spoke.


A laptop with microphone and a spectrum analyzer display software or a
musical instrument tuning software can help those of us who, like
myself, have next to nothing in musical hearing abilities.

Such software is often free and the built-in microphone can suffice
which would make the investment $0.

This is how I tuned our piano which my wife used to play.


I would suggest first reading up on this and/or watching some videos.


Absolutely. Or swallow the pride and let a bike repair shop do it.

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Regards, Joerg

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