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Old October 16th 06, 02:30 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Andy Froncioni
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Default Spoke Tension Calibration Curves


Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
Andy Froncioni wrote:
I recently bought a fancy DT-Swiss Tensio tensiometer. Yup, the
expensive kind.

Ok, so now I have this nice tool that only comes with calibration
curves for ... wait for it... only DT-Swiss spokes. My wheels are
bladed Shimano WH-R550's, so all the provided curves are useless.


Not really. Just measure the thickness of the shimano spoke center
section and use the corrresponding spoke thickness that matches a DT
one, like the new bladed one. Or extrapolate.


No, you can't do that. The bending moment of a non-circular
cross-section
rod is highly dependent on its shape. A rectangular cross-section vs.
an elliptical
cross-section will yield vastly different bending behaviours.

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