Sestriere wheels: spoke length?

AndresMuro wrote:

An old wa to stress relieve wheels that I learned was to put the place one end
of the rim on the ground and put pressure on the other end, and rotate the
wheel until you got all the spokes to go "ping".

That's not stress releiving, that's merely taking out the spoke
wind-up caused by tightening spoke nipples without backing them off.
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Thanks, I haven't done that in a long time. A mechanic that showed me
how to build wheels showed me how to do this. It was kind of cool to
do it since it made a great sound. I really didn't know what it did to
the wheel. After reading Jobst book, I squeeze parallel spokes. I
don't know what it does, but I know that my wheels stay true. I really
wouldn't know how to do this to a Rolf wheel.

I am still waiting for the subtle insult from an eager engineer for my
misinformed comment.

Andres


(Art Harris) wrote in message . com...
(AndresMuro) wrote in message ...
Mike:

An old wa to stress relieve wheels that I learned was to put the place one end
of the rim on the ground and put pressure on the other end, and rotate the
wheel until you got all the spokes to go "ping".

That sounds like a way of removing spoke wind-up.

Art Harris

In article ,
(andres muro) wrote:

Thanks, I haven't done that in a long time. A mechanic that showed me
how to build wheels showed me how to do this. It was kind of cool to
do it since it made a great sound. I really didn't know what it did to
the wheel. After reading Jobst book, I squeeze parallel spokes. I
don't know what it does, but I know that my wheels stay true.

If you don't know what it does, then you didn't read the book.

I am still waiting for the subtle insult from an eager engineer for my
misinformed comment.

Andres


Sorry, you'll have to wait for Jobst. I'm not an engineer.

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Ted Bennett
Portland OR

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 03:29:14 GMT, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
may have said:

Thanks Mike. Looking at the decals, I see 2083m. Is that the spoke
length??? Both the front as well as the rear wheels use spokes of the
same
length?

As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, those would be pretty long spokes!
I didn't get a chance to check at the shop, but I think that zero (in 2083)
isn't supposed to be there.

And I think there may be a second "m" needed, too.

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