And 72 times "a little bit" is even more!
How many people guessed the context of this post from the title? Most people who have restored old wheels I guess.
Pretty much any time I've ever done something to clean up the spokes on an old wheel in order to salvage them,without going to the bother of a full rebuild, I've always ended up frustrated with how time consuming it is. Most times I've end up wishing that I'd just cut them out and rebuilt those suckers properly in the first place, as the time taken is about the same.
Can anyone else relate to this?
36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby P!N20 » Sat May 19, 2018 4:44 pm
That’s why I only ever have 32/64.
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby Clydesdale Scot » Sat May 19, 2018 10:44 pm
32 and 40 are the correct numbers.
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby uart » Sun May 20, 2018 3:57 pm
That's interesting. The majority of my old wheels from 70s/80s are 36 spoke. I've got a couple of 32 spokes wheels, but I think they were 90s.Clydesdale Scot wrote:32 and 40 are the correct numbers.
As you can guess from my rant, I spent yesterday trying to clean up an old pair without fully rebuilding them. It ended up being a whole crap ton of work for a really really shirty result. Oh well.
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby Clydesdale Scot » Sun May 20, 2018 4:01 pm
easier to clean when the spokes don't exist
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby WyvernRH » Mon May 21, 2018 9:22 pm
The 32/40 thing, apart from being a good engineering analysis of the structure required, also meant with the correct crossings you could have the same length spokes in both wheels. Very important if you were touring on on a restricted budget as most folk were in the 50's.uart wrote:That's interesting. The majority of my old wheels from 70s/80s are 36 spoke. I've got a couple of 32 spokes wheels, but I think they were 90s.Clydesdale Scot wrote:32 and 40 are the correct numbers.
36x36 really only started becoming popular as a 'production line' thing when automated wheel building started up in the early 60's (or a bit earlier in Europe)
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby Thoglette » Tue May 22, 2018 12:08 pm
I guess that required many hours of family fun with a spoke length calculator and rim/hub catalogues?WyvernRH wrote: you could have the same length spokes in both wheels.
Or were hubs sold in pairs with the correct dimensions to allow this?
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby queequeg » Tue May 22, 2018 12:52 pm
Some hub designs actually already incorporate this, with the flange on one side having a large PCD than the other. For example, my Hope Pro2 EVO hubs have a 2mm PCD difference between the left and right side, and flange offset on the front and rear hubs is the same (these are disc hubs). It resulted in a spoke calculation that ends up producing the same rounded length spoke for both sides of both wheels, as long as you build both wheels with the same cross lacing and spoke count.Thoglette wrote:I guess that required many hours of family fun with a spoke length calculator and rim/hub catalogues?WyvernRH wrote: you could have the same length spokes in both wheels.
Or were hubs sold in pairs with the correct dimensions to allow this?
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Re: 36 times "a little bit" is a lot.
Postby WyvernRH » Tue May 22, 2018 9:25 pm
Well yes, assuming same type of rims of course front and rear, remember that 5 speeds was the most you were going to get at the back in those days so you could safely use the shorter length spoke at the back as a replacement and IIRC the crossing difference matched up the front to the back. This is still an approximation to the wheel building perfectionist of course, depending on the hub and the front fork width you might be a mm or so out but less didn't really matter and more was dispatched with the small hand file most folk carried in the touring tool kit.Thoglette wrote:I guess that required many hours of family fun with a spoke length calculator and rim/hub catalogues?WyvernRH wrote: you could have the same length spokes in both wheels.
Or were hubs sold in pairs with the correct dimensions to allow this?
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