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motomagII:
hey sean any tips on how to build wheel without scratching the rims when putting the spokes in as i always seem to scratch them even though i try being really careful greg

stidds:
That sounds cool Strikey, give them another go, if you are not 100% happy, tell them and send them to me.  DT Swiss spokes are superb by the way.


Greg, the trick to not scratching the rims with the threaded end of the spoke is simply to bend the spoke mate, too many people are worried about bending spokes.  Bend the spoke enough to clear the rim and sit above the hole and then bend it back to put it through the hole and put the nipple on.  When tensioning the nipple and trueing the wheel the spoke will bend perfectly straight again.

motomagII:
just built 2 wheels  that i stripped and polished up bit and spoked then last night again i have some spoke scratches to polish out once ive trued then.its harder to polish then though.got the wheel build sorted pretty much only went wrong once and had to strip the rear half built .glad they werent annodised with the scratches i put on em but hey we all have to learn and start somewhere .

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