Yep...
French had their own TPI and guage number order. Had to be careful with Robergel's in the mid-80s...I swear some were French with backward numbered guages and different TPI...some were "normal" order guages and 56 TPI. Had about a dozen boxes of both back then.
ISO/Japanese/Euro = 17 15 14 13 12 in 56 TPI French = 10 12 13 15 16 in 63.5 TPI
Phil Wood spoke machine dies are in the ISO 56 TPI. Should I ever come across 63.5 TPI dies in Taiwan I just might be tempted to grab a few...highly doubt it'll ever happen though. Would be cool if I could provide cutting threading services for those wanting to use French spokes and keep 'em that way.
=8-)
Robert Shackelford San Jose, CA USA
Quoting Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>:
> Are you saying there was a French spoke thread that was different from
> Italian or Swiss spokes? I have to confess, I always thought that spokes
> were one item where everyone used the same thread for a given gauge. Maybe
> I've been wrong all these years. I admit I've never really tried mixing
> French spokes with DT nipples or vice versa.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big spring, Texsa, USA
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/11/09, mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net> wrote:
>
> > From: mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net>
> > Subject: Re: [CR] Hi-E Nipple AND Spokes??????
> > To: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
> > Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:14 PM
> > Wow!
> >
> > You may have yourself in quite a bind here...
> >
> > I'm guessing you might have 63.5 TPI (French) or the TPI
> > common to 120 spokes -
> >
> > the larger cousing to 105 spokes. Where to get 15g
> > spokes with Hi-E
> > threading...me totally clueless.
> >
> > Would standard nipples work? Might have to go that
> > route unless someone else
> > here comes to the rescue.
> >
> > =8-(
> >
> > (Been ages since I've worked on anything other than 56
> > TPI)
> >
> >
> > Robert Shackelford
> > San Jose, CA USA
> >
> > Quoting Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>:
> >
> > > Well, in my continuing Hi-E Project, having destroyed
> > one rim trying to true
> > > a Hi-E wheel with old corroded spokes, I decided to
> > respoke, but hoped to
> > > reuse the special Hi-E nipples. The original
> > spokes measure 15 ga on the
> > > end, so I ordered some 15 ga DTs to rebuild
> > with. But when they arrived
> > > today, I found I cannot thread the Hi-E nipples more
> > than a couple of turns
> > > onto the DT 15 ga spokes. Did Hi-E make their
> > own spokes as well as nipples?
> > > Did they use a non-standard thread?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jerry Moos
> > >
> > >
> > >
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