Re: [CR]30 spoke hole weirdness - math basics

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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:16:25 -0700
From: "Doug Van Cleve" <dvancleve@gmail.com>
To: "Scott Edrington" <scott@edrington.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]30 spoke hole weirdness - math basics
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Scott,

I did some sketches last night in an effort to help Jerry out with some lacing ideas. It looks to me like if you did the 3 groups of five spokes you would probably run into issues with the amount the outer spokes overlapped the flanges...

Doug Van Cleve Chandler, AZ USA

On 12/21/07, Scott Edrington <scott@edrington.net> wrote:
> I have the same 30 hole Zeus hubs and rims. I'm not a wheel builder but b
> asic math says the root numbers for 15 are 1,3 and 5. This tells me that
> you can spoke a 30 hole rim either radially (1) or have 5 sets of (3) cro
> ssed spokes per side. In theory I guess you could have 3 sets of (5) cros
> sed spokes per side; not sure this would be practical or doable.
> Scott Edrington
> San Diego, CA USA