NeilP
1 GW
A thought occured to me while replacing a few spokes on an old Tarn hub motor the other day and I probably could have made my life easier in the past if I had used the same technique in my wheel building.
The wheel I was doing had short spokes...88 mm I think in a radial pattern and they had used longer than 'standard' 16mm nipples.
This meant that the spokes all ended just short of the rim , not by much, maybe 1 to 2 mm maximum when un-tensioned But that makes the lacing so so much easier, no need to try and flex short stubby spokes to fit inside the holes.
Since ERD is in reality 'the diameter where you want the spokes to finish' it is jsut a matter of measuring the inner rim diameter and knocking off a mm or so and using this in the online spoke calculators, then just use a longer nipple with , I suspect, a longer threaded portion.
No question here really just an observation that is looking for comments or experience in this 'method'
The wheel I was doing had short spokes...88 mm I think in a radial pattern and they had used longer than 'standard' 16mm nipples.
This meant that the spokes all ended just short of the rim , not by much, maybe 1 to 2 mm maximum when un-tensioned But that makes the lacing so so much easier, no need to try and flex short stubby spokes to fit inside the holes.
Since ERD is in reality 'the diameter where you want the spokes to finish' it is jsut a matter of measuring the inner rim diameter and knocking off a mm or so and using this in the online spoke calculators, then just use a longer nipple with , I suspect, a longer threaded portion.
No question here really just an observation that is looking for comments or experience in this 'method'
Oh no here we go again, the 
