Re: [CR]Building wheels

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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:58:32 -0700
From: <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net>
To: Sadiq Gill <sadiqgill@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Building wheels
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cc: Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net>
cc: Bianca Pratorius

As to the +/- .002 spec...

That's Nashbar's spec from...

...you guessed it...their 1984? custom wheel building pages in their catalog.

I had to rise to some standard when getting started. Right?

=8-)

p.s. (Seriously, I'm not kidding. I bet someone else here remembers it...)

Quoting Sadiq Gill <sadiqgill@gmail.com>:
> Ahhhh...the lore of comic books. In the last issue our protagonist Garth
> was doing some undercover recon of the JB wheelbuilding sweatshops. The
> current issue has him doing horny, sweaty, anal wheel building (sounds more
> like a prison riot). I must say when I read these, my brain adopts a
> Charlton Heston tone......
>
> Rok on Libre.............
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Bianca Pratorius
> <biankita@comcast.net>wrote:
>
> > As to the listmember that believes careful time consuming work on a wheel
> > is anal - I must disagree. Anal has a translation in the psychological
> world
> > as someone who is overly retentive. It refers to those people who tend to
> > collect. In that definition, most or many of us would tend to be somewhat
> > anal. Now as to the common use of the word anal - I also disagree.
> > Wheelbuilding is as much a meditation as anything else. In a world where
> so
> > many things are rushed and done slap dab - one finds solace in careful
> work
> > which reveals as much about our souls as it does about the physics of a
> well
> > built wheel.
> >
> > My weekend's work resulted in high flange track wheels with 292 length db
> > spokes and Mavic Open Pro rims. The reference books tell me that these
> > spokes when correctly tensioned will have a tone when plucked of A above
> > middle C. The most off I am from that tone on any one spoke is less than
> 1/2
> > step to A flat or less than 1/2 step to the slightly higher B flat.
> Lateral
> > wobble was kept to less than 0.5 mm and out of round was kept to no more
> > than 1.0 mm. I consider that to be the most successful wheelset I have
> ever
> > built.
> >
> > The same listmember that cautioned us not to be too anal also stated that
> > he builds wheels to plus or minus 0.002 inch variation. I think he must
> have
> > meant 0.02 inch but even that degree of accuracy would still fall in
> > someone's definition of anal. Most of our marriages will stand or fail on
> > the basis of something other than spending two hours working on a wheel.
> > There's love and communication in the mix too, along with respect and
> > passion. After I finished my wheel, I was just as communicative and horny
> as
> > ever.
> >
> > Garth Libre in Miami Florida USA
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
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