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resolvedSo I've got a hub coming from Germanland, will be finding a nice rear hub, and rims and finding a spoke calculator while waiting for it all to arrive - so who would be around for an evening wheelbuilding lesson?*
*I pay in alcoholic beverages and macaroons...
http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/spokecalc
"evening wheelbuilding lesson"
My method takes 5 minutes.
Just get 4 spokes sorted - 2 either side of valve hole. (Other teaching/lacing methods are available.)
I'll do it. However seeing as I've never built a wheel before, it's a rather unfair trade of the contents of your Malt cupboard and Macaroon shelf for a duff wheel...
I'll do it. I've got one to build anyway so it would be a case of sitting with the gear and Sheldon's web page and lacing them up. Doing up the spokes is the part that needs care. I just need to get the spokes off my favourite eBay seller and I'm ready to go. This will be my fourth or fifth. Going by the success of my latest dynamo wheel, which has never needed truing since I built it about 6 months ago, my method works out OK.
Sounds a plan. Can sort something out once I've got all the bits :)
Lesson 2 later.
OK. I've just bought the spokes I need. Delivery due next Tuesday or Wednesday. Formulate a plan later.
Thats where I bought my three sets from, don't ask, one set have done me well for the last year on the single speed. The other set wingpig used for one of his builds, the third is kicking round my house but I expect will be too short.
Something like this saves a bit of time -
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_29099.htm
Electric screwdriver? What's the rush - if he's made enough macaroons and his beer fridge is full it might as well take hours.
"...The other set wingpig used for one of his builds..."
Not yet. They'll be used to rebuild the hub from my old back wheel onto the rim from the sparebike's front wheel to form a new freehub-equipped rear wheel for sparebike.
Kaputnik's Zinn book's method (but probably Sheldon/Brandt too) ensures that the crossing on the driveside on the rear is the right way round to not risk high-torque chain-spoke interactions.
You (WC) are welcome to borrow the Zinn book from whomever currently has it on loan!
/whistles again...
I've built one rear wheel, courtesy of the Musson book (wheelpro link above) and rebuilt the Pino front wheel.
I should say that I've never actually ridden the rear wheel, and only through the Pino one together quickly as the dismantling was just to get the measurements for ordering up spokes.
We've speculated before about a wheel building session - I must order the Pino spokes if this looks likely to happen...
Robert
Lesson 2 (These spokes are in my hand so not in exact position/angle they would be if in a rim.)
This is how I do it - because I don't do it often enough for it to be instinctive.
Start with 4 spokes - two each side, heads pointing complementary ways.
There are six holes between them if the wheel is to be built 'cross three'.
Fix to rim around hole (above photo) so that there is biggest gap for the valve.
Then add the rest of the spokes in the same pattern - alternating heads on the hub and from left and right at the rim.
and only through the Pino one together quickly
<sigh> Threw the ball through the window, though thankfully it was open. The split infinitive isn't quite so bothersome...
Robert
<shuffling off in shame>
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