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Old timer at my shop said I torque spokes wrong, and now I can't stop thinking about it
I was truing a rear wheel last Tuesday when a guy who has been building wheels for 30 years stopped at my stand and watched me for a bit. He said I was tensioning the drive side first and that I should always start on the non drive side to keep the dish even. I have built maybe 40 wheels this way and never had a comeback, but he made it sound so obvious that I feel like I have been lucky this whole time. Now I want to know if there is real proof behind it or if it is just the way he was taught back in the 80s. Anyone here changed their build order and actually noticed a difference in dish or tension balance?
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ivan77410d ago
I ran into the same thing about 6 years ago when a guy named Sal at the co-op told me the exact same thing. I had built maybe 60 wheels my way and thought he was full of it, so I actually tested it. Built two identical rear wheels, one drive side first, one non drive side first, same rim same hub same spokes. Checked dish with a dishing tool after each pass and the non drive side start did hold dish better during the middle of the build. The drive side first wheel was still fine at the end, dish came out right, but I was fighting the tension balance way more the whole time. So the old guy is not wrong, but I would not say your 40 wheels were luck either. The order just makes the job easier, it does not fix a bad build.
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