Tuesday, January 30, 2007

stress relieve


before we start bringing the spokes into the final tensioning and trueing stage it's important to stress relieve the wheel first. This step helps seat the spoke heads and nipples. I relieve the tension by grabbing four adjacent spokes, two in each hand and squeezing about as hard as i physically can. Two complete revolutions should be good. After you do this you'll notice that the spoke tension is dramatically lower than before this step. Thats good !

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