Wheel Building

[Cyborg]

Just for sport, I tried changing the angle of an extra spoke flange. I thought that a metal spinning technique might work. I was wrong…. the idea actually sucks.

The man from Devon says their spoke heads are :
7.5mm for the 8/10g butted spokes and 7.2mm for the straight 8 gauge spokes

 

[Magnetoman]

The man from Devon says their spoke heads are :
7.5mm for the 8/10g butted spokes and 7.2mm for the straight 8 gauge spokes

Converting these to real units, they're 0.295" and 0.283". My "Ron Kemp" stainless spokes heads are 0.297" (7.54 mm in fictitious units).

The largest gap I measured on my rear wheel was 0.270" (the smallest was 0.201"). Since the head of a spoke can be "rocked" into place in the slot, I found that the gap can be ~0.025" smaller than the diameter of the head, so increasing the gap to 0.272" everywhere around the flange would accomplish this for the Devon and Kemp spoke heads. Call that 0.280" to be safe, which is only 0.010" larger than the largest gap I currently have (0.079" larger than the smallest gap).

 

[Cyborg]

You three are bucking some headwinds.

 

[Cyborg]

Although I still think imperial thoughts…

 

[Magnetoman]

Metric is just a fad, like bell bottoms. It too shall pass...

 

[bmetcalf]

We stand with the Burmese!

 

[Magnetoman]

Although I still think imperial thoughts…

I meant to point out your atrocious spelling earlier. The word you're looking for is spelled 'impure'.

 

[vibrac]

If it was made to measure then measure it made (apart from bore and stroke of course)