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First attempt at wheel building.....help as I go.
stidds:
--- Quote from: EDBANGER on May 20, 2014, 10:32 PM ---The Stidds sticky is perfect. I'd seen guides trying to explain that with harsh looking mathematical equations and my brain just went into panic mode and melted. Stidd's guide had nice pictures :LolLolLolLol:
So according to the calculations the spoke length that I need is 179mm. As I said before they all seem to start at 180mm. Will that extra mm make any difference?
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Well thank you for the kind comment. I am really glad it helped.
EDBANGER:
It certainly did. I went about my shit with an air of knowing what I was doing :LolLolLolLol:
Does the lacing look right to you?
hokuspokus74:
I wouldnt mindmaking my own truing stand etc,might just look into it coz it aint great using the forks :daumenhoch:
oldtired:
old Akisu forks ,busted guard of the bench grinder(up n down true) nuts n bolts (left and right true) , bit o griding for the freewheel / cassette, and for 14mm axles
result :- nice straight wheels every time , after a bit of practice :daumenhoch: what i would suggest is buy a quality spoke key worth the few quids to get one the correct size :daumenhoch:
Park Tools Truing stand over £100, home made..... nowt, although i did knock me bru over and set fire to me vans with the sparks of the grinder :LolLolLolLol:
:LolLolLolLol: fookin brill getting a wheel trued up, very therapeutic :daumenhoch: :LolLolLolLol:
now bolted to a tripod stand for indoor winter wheel fiddling :daumenhoch:
great thing about bmx wheels is they sit central over the hub so no need to dish the back wheel, get the initial tension on the spokes even and the rest is easy
a couple of these with different amounts of thread may help, gets the spokes all at the same tension and will make the rest of the truing easy , thread one into the nip and turn until the nip stops :daumenhoch:
hokuspokus74:
hey oldtired great piece of engineering there :coolsmiley: hats off too ya :daumenhoch:
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